Color Red In The Holocaust

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What is also conceived from that scene is that as the little girl in the red coat runs into the house, up the stairs and hides under the bed, the color of her coat changes from a bright blood red –red like all the innocent blood that was spilled during the Holocaust- to a dull grey color. Albeit, that scene can be interpreted in many different ways, it symbolizes a numerous amount of things. Like how she is wearing a loud and obvious color, the Nazis should have noticed her and killed her instantly but they just move on with the rest, in a way she symbolizes the ignorance at the time the holocaust was an obvious event, it was happening yet no country did anything about it. "America and Russia and England all knew about the Holocaust when it…show more content…
It was a large bloodstain, primary red color on everyone's radar, but no one did anything about it. And that's why I wanted to bring the color red in." -Steven Spielberg. The girl represents a turning point in the movie. In war the colour red is a symbol for hate and sorrow. This is where Schindler understands what's really going on, and he feels sympathy, empathy and sorrow. At the end of the movie he says that he could have saved so many more, thousands of persons, hundreds of persons, two persons and then he says one person and starts to cry. I believe that the one person he is referring to is the girl in red. She also signals the shift of Schindler from war profiteer to humanitarian fighting for these people. The red also symbolizes passion and love for something he has never loved before and drive him to create a list unlike any other a list of…show more content…
Actually, it was Schindler who disabled Goethe's two guns during the party in the previous scene. While Goethe was drunk and "having his way" with one of the women, Schindler most likely disabled the guns by damaging thefeed spring in the clip and by loading both guns with duds. In the next scene, Schindler lights his cigarette and hands the lighter to Stern and the lighter fails to light. Schindler had done that in an attempt to save his workers (any of them) from Goethe's murderous wrath. Some say that Schindler would not have been able to accomplish what he did if he was a saintly, completely righteous and moral person. The Nazis wouldn't have paid any mind to someone they thought of as a "Jew lover" and do-gooder. That they thought he was scum like them allowed them to justify indulging him. There are few other scenes when Schindler’s compassion truly shines throughout out the rest of the movie. Like when he consoled Helen through her brutal and traumatic experiences with Goethe. In the beginning of the movie Schindler was portrayed as an antagonist, money loving, trifling self center man, but by the end of the movie, he was a hero. A courageous man, who was loved and looked upon in a highly respectable aura by a lot of Jews, and even German
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