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Allusive Scenes of Dehumanization Schindler’s List had multiple scenes of constant disposal of the Jews’ clothes, suitcases and their belongings. The Nazis would take their luggage before boarding trains, convincing their Jewish subjects that their luggage would arrive with them to their destination, but it never did. Instead, the Nazis collected the Jews’ belongings and mined through them for valuables – real silver menorahs, teeth with silver and gold fillings, and diamond and silver jewelry. In a sense, the Jews were debased to their belongings’ worth, once again dehumanizing the Jews as commodities and disposed goods that would soon be forgotten. The classical music composition for one of these scenes was titled “Stolen Memories”, which was what was depicted – lost memories, ravaged by the Nazis to blot out the history of millions of people who could only be remembered by those who lost them in the War. The last scene of dehumanization that I would like...

Image from Google Images Life is full of pain, but “A man who saves one saves the world entire,” according to the Talmud. Schindler’s List is the story of that one man, who known to many as a war profiteer, womanizer and Nazi party member became the saving force for 1,100 Polish Jews during the Holocaust. Oskar Schindler was his name, and this film was about his acts that saved generations of people. So, from what began as an independent historical fiction film series evolved into a film series about genocide, which plays such a larger role in recent wars of the last and current centuries. The themes most present in this film were the good versus evil complex, power, equality and dehumanization. In a detailed foil analysis of Amon Goeth and Oskar Schindler and the director’s constant use of cinematography to depict different interpretations of the humanization of Jews, Schindler’s List contained the essence of the Holocaust in its many horrors yet its human...

            In 1944, thousands of African-American pilots flew out of American bases in Europe to fight the German Nazi regime in World War II. As much as they wanted to find equality in the right to fight, they were prohibited in their own home country from mixing with whites. Their story? It is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen. Image from Google Images             I kicked off my war film series with Anthony Hemingway’s Red Tails , which starred Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. among many other talented actors. Red Tails portrayed a historically fictional depiction of the Tuskegee Airmen’s plight during WWII and the dawn of the incorporation of black pilots in combat missions, which eventually led to desegregation of the military. With its fast-paced action as well as its realistic scenes of racism and camaraderie built between African-Americans and some of the wh...