The list of life..

An afterthought to the movie Schindler's List. What makes a movie such, such as Schindler's list?
Is it the truth behind it? Is it the voice of gratitude of the thousands that live in testimony of the great man? ..or is it the dying pleas of those who were left back...those victims of the holocaust??
Who else may form such an unlikely hero as schindler? A swindler.A man who's sole purpose was to make money out of the sufferings of people during war.. To take advantage of them.One wonders as the movie goes on where in the movie does it happen? do the shades of gray start turning white? Was it when he bribes the first time to get the old couple from camp ghetto? Is that why the golden watch he tips off look so golden? Is this color one of emerging emotion?
Why then does the little blob of red in 3 hours of the movie reach out like those of a child's hands that don them?
How is it that the quiet diligence of a jewish accountant affect so adversely such an entirely visual and outspoken,even flamboyant man. Was that what made him realize his own power? In his own word's schindler in the movie says "money is not always money" even when he thought money would get him all he wanted.But what redefined what he wanted?
The warmth in the words as he offers them "hot soup and bread" will mellow down the hardest of hearts.But the doubt is how very little lives he seems to have affected around him. The warden of that camp the Russian officials, the other businessmen. Even with the jews crying for water when schindler runs with a fire hose to give them water, there seems to be little effect on anyone but a trace on the wardens mind.Are men so cold? Or was schindler just godsend..

Those last minutes, despite his efforts as he breaks down on every object he possesses on how they could have been sold to get more people free...the effect is magical and would leave stones wet with emotion.
Oscar Schindler is more than just an inspiration in a world riddled with violence. Not that many of us may be blessed with the power and ability to scale a task as big on the mind as on this world, but it is a lesson on what to live our lives for.Not pots and pans....