Chapter 490 490 Black and White Colors
Roger Ebert's full-point praise obviously started a better start for the first round of "Schindler's List" reviews. The full-point rating and full-star recommendation are the highest Roger has given to a film. Praise, this is the highest praise any film critic can give to a film.
The firepower of the "Chicago Sun" exceeded everyone's expectations. At first, everyone was worried about whether Steven Spielberg could grasp the scale of such a heavy subject as the Holocaust of World War II, but now it seems that, Steven has not only completed his own work, but has always done an exceptionally good job, which also made the "Spielberg + History Heavy Theme" burst into a powerful effect of greater than two.
The subsequent comments provided by "Variety" magazine also continued Roger's views on the film. Although the 95-point score is not a perfect score, it is not far away. "The magazine, to be able to give such a high rating, is obviously the best echo of Roger.
"This is a movie that deeply exposes the horrific crimes of the Nazi genocide of Jews in Germany, and there is no doubt that it is also a movie worth watching and remembering by all.
It was because Spielberg had Jewish blood and experienced firsthand the pain of Jewish discrimination in his childhood; seventeen members of the extended Ukrainian family from which his family surname came were killed in concentration camps; his Deep down, I have a pious and grateful mentality for Schindler, the great benefactor of the Jewish people. This series of facts close to the heart has long made this successful film.
This film is Spielberg's review of the tragic massacre of six million Jews in Germany during World War II. The film tells the great experience of Oskar Schindler with a pessimistic and gloomy tone and a calm but intense perspective. Going back to Krakow during World War II, I showed people the whole process of the destruction of the city, while trying to find the glimmer of humanity in the era when humanity was wiped out.
Spielberg didn't approach the story with historical hatred or critical eyes, he didn't want to look at that history with his personal eyes, he just told the story of an ordinary man whose morals were severely tainted in a war-torn age. Challenge the story after, so as to examine the impact of this event on the parties, on the entire era and on future generations. Finally, turn this influence into a reflection in your mind, comfort the souls who have passed away, wake up the survivors, and inform others who have never experienced it.
Whoever saves one life saves the whole world. If you save a life, you save yourself.
What the film shows is a world that seems ridiculous in peaceful times. Those German soldiers regard the killing of Jews as a legitimate and normal job. There is such a scene in the film. A one-armed old man is He tried to shovel snow, but he was caught by the SS on the side of the road. After asking a few questions, he was shot and killed. The other soldiers around were chatting and laughing with hot tea. The colorless blood of the old man made the snow filthy.
The more killings, the more tragic it is. It was never calculated like this, but indifferent during the killing process, as if all this was taken for granted. This kind of contempt for life is a tragedy. Scenarios like the one-armed man abound in the movies, and we can often see the people next to us chatting while the Jews two steps away are suffering—and even losing their lives.
Before his death, the one-armed old man kept saying: I am an important worker, his trembling voice was full of a strong desire to survive, and he longed to live. Although there are many difficulties and injustices in the vitality, he is eager to live no matter what. However, this kind of wish has no meaning for those soldiers who are serious. They simply and simply ended the life of the old man. Everything seems to be a game.
Such a game created the greatness of "Schindler's List". Schindler is a strong player in this game, but he gradually changed his mentality in the game. He suffered to the end. The pain of the body will never compare to the tear of the spirit. We can't imagine Xindler. The psychological struggle that Deler experienced, because we are not Schindler, we are not Schindler at that time in that era, our speculation is just an 'interpretation' of Schindler, and this interpretation is not told in the film, This is precisely what makes the film so successful.
In the end, Schindler traded his lifelong dream—to become a billionaire—for Jewish lives. Dreams are priceless, and lives are priceless. Therefore, Schindler succeeded. He saved this group of innocent lives and made his life find meaning.
This is a movie where the details are everything, and all the details complement the theme of the movie, like a jigsaw puzzle, to put together this outstanding film.
The first piece of the puzzle is the balcony, the balcony of the home of Nazi officer Amon Goss. There are many pictures that appear with this balcony as the background. The most impressive one is naturally the picture of Goss standing shirtless on the balcony in the early morning of Hugo Lancaster's extraordinary performance, leisurely aiming at the prey in the concentration camp below.
Goss stretched while smoking a cigarette, like aiming at a hare in a hunting field, or like a target in a shooting range, pulling the trigger with precision and calmness, and harvesting one life after another. After he is done, and bed. The companion chatted and went to the bathroom to address his physiological needs, as if he had just finished his morning exercise.
This picture is so lifelike, yet so real and so cruel.
In addition, there are countless times that happened on this balcony, the moments of partying and drinking, the moments when Goss was lazily undergoing medical examinations, the moments when Goss slept and hugged a woman, the moments when Schindler and Goss talked late at night, This balcony is like a paradise where all the good and simple moments in life take place. But the irony is that just across a balcony is another world, where people are treated as a kind of plaything, their lives and self-esteem no longer exist, just part of the game.
So sad.
The second piece of the puzzle is color, which is also the strongest and most direct part of the film.
The film opens with a candle lit in the dark, the faint flame struggling to burn in the dark space around it, accompanied by the carol, serene, beautiful, warm, a soft yellow flame surrounded by a pale blue halo , dispelling the darkness around, symbolizing the Jewish desire for a space of space, trying to illuminate the whole world, and then extinguished, turning into a puff of smoke. Then, where the ashes disappeared, the roaring whistle of the train dragged a long tail of smoke, dragging this tragic era into our sight.
Reproducing that period of history does not need color, because it was a cold time, and the deformed human nature has no color at all, only black and white, calm, dark, heavy black and white can better explain that than any color. Era. But even so, Spielberg still pointed out a touch of red. That little red figure is the only color in the black and white era. This little girl in red is like a tough and stubborn place in the hard land of suffering. A bunch of wildflowers grew out, lovely and beautiful, fluttering in the wind, but in the end, they were overwhelmed by the whole bleak years, and the only tinge of red was also swallowed up.
It also brings the seriousness of film thought and extraordinary artistic expression to a rare depth.
At the end of the story, the Jewish nation finally ushered in their dawn, a dark age finally came to an end, and on the far horizon came the Jews who had survived the catastrophe. People also let out their breath in the depression. They came from the darkness, just like from night to dawn, step by step to dawn, the sky slowly turned blue, first dark blue, then light blue, and finally bright blue. , the Jews finally walked under the bright blue sky.
From color to black and white to color, the film's use of color symbolizes the transformation of mood. It is simply but deeply integrated into the whole story, slipping into the heart, with unparalleled effect.
The final piece of the puzzle is the soundtrack, which is arguably the most important but easily overlooked part of the film.
John Williams (John. Williams), who is probably the most famous soundtrack in film history, has once again offered us a classic after winning four Oscars and numerous nominations. It can be said that this film adapted Williams' creation and formed a new peak; it can also be said that Williams' outstanding soundtrack deepened the theme of the film. But no matter how you evaluate it, the soundtrack of this film is an indispensable part, a perfect work that is connected by flesh and blood and bursts of truth!
He used the pathos of the viola to make people repent of the sins of that period of time; he used the piercing violin to tell the grief and desolation of that period of history; he used the galloping and unrestrained piano to contrast the cruelty and cold blood of that unscrupulous massacre; The choir sings nursery rhymes to comprehend the inner grief and redemption... That deep pain quietly expresses the inner pain and grief.
The poster of the movie is an adult's hand grabbing a small hand in red. That hand is so powerful, yet weak. In that crazy era, there were only a few sober, just like a movie. The soundtrack is average, the slow-in and slow-out background and the highly skilled rhythm are constantly describing, describing the pictures, the numb eyes, the numb movements, and the last trace of numbness that was taken away by the poisonous gas. Breathless.
Life is no longer noble and mysterious, stripped of its clothes, stripped of the last false mask of pity for mankind, in front of six million corpses, without making a sound, like a cappella singing by choir girls, without emotion, even except for sound, feeling Without any breath of life. The sound of the violin is like grievances and tears, and the sad melody seems to tell the tragic fate of the Jews, but after listening carefully, there are some bright colors and hopes in the smooth melody, just like the candlelight at the beginning of the movie .
At the end of the movie, the piano solo quietly came to an end, all the stories dissipated in time, and no one had the heart to be born to interrupt the depressing and empty piano sound, so the violin quietly came to sublimate this song full of Poetry of blood and tears. The color that disappeared in the darkness turned into a note and stayed in everyone's heart.
Spielberg uses the most simple lens, the most simple color, and the most simple method to tell us a most beautiful story. "