Through black and white the colors of the humans are revealed: Schindler’s List
Schindler's List is an American historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. In this film, the Holocaust is portrayed as the ultimate expression of the cruelty unleashed during World War II. However, Schindler's List takes another perspective to this historical event: the film presents a German protagonist that saved more than a thousand Polish Jewish lives.
 This humanization of the main character during the most intense part of the conflict enables the film to develop complex characters with a well-developed interactions between them. This allows the plot to reach deeper levels of interpretation, so the complexity of the film is enriched, but also more difficult to understand. So, the use of black and white in the shots can serve as a delimitation for the viewer. This way, the lack of bright, intense colors allows readers to concentrate in the plot, instead of minor details like notorious colors, like reds, that can attract attention due to its nature.
 It is important to mention that the principal photography took place in Kraków, Poland. Spielberg shot the film in black and white and approached it as a documentary. Also, the constant use of black and white shots are used in order to put on the spotlight certain details that would pass unnoticed without this visual resource. The treatment of the film as a documentary also creates an environment of seriousness all around the film: you are not watching an action movie or a fictional story, you are taking a look at one of the most tragic and devastating event in the human history.











