![]() The scene is not only meaningful in and of itself, but also ironic since it marks the beginning for the day of rest. The film begins in color while observing a Shabbat service prayer, a family standing around a dinner table surrounded by natural sunset lighting. Ben Kingsley's lowly accountant Itzhak Stern later describes it as an absolute good and a symbol for life, and the blank margins are the abyss, implying the empty space and relative closeness between life and death for each person's name.īut before we reach that point and its significance, Spielberg takes us through a gut-wrenching and harrowing journey of suffering, fear, and a constant struggle for survival - which in essence, visualizes Stern's later comments as a very small, narrow space. The word also imagines something more immediate, tangible and concrete, envisaging in audiences a larger dramatic scope that's somehow connected to a piece of paper cataloging a series of names. Changed from the book Schindler's Ark, on which the film is based, calling it Listis subtler and more ambiguous, removing religious connotations that would otherwise create certain expectations, particularly towards the conclusion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part of the brilliance of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List is in the title itself. ![]()
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