Bring on the tough stuff. There’s not just one right answer.
- Why Does Oskar Schindler come to Poland? Does that make him any better than the conquering Germans?
- How do the Jews find ways of surviving their imminent doom? In what ways are they shown as powerless against it?
- What does it say that the Nazis seem so ordinary in this movie, instead of monomaniacal supervillains that we see in other movies?
- Why does Spielberg shoot most of the movie in black and white? What's significant about the few times it does use color?
- How do the Nazis talk about their plans? What does that say about the evil they represent?
- Do you think Amon Goeth is psychotic?
- Why does Steven Spielberg show us the real-life people portrayed in the film at the end? What kind of significance does that gesture hold?
- How do the Jews express their faith in the face of the horror around them? What's the benefit of such gestures?
- Some people have accused Spielberg of turning the Holocaust into melodrama. What do you think?