That history cannot be reproduced, it is not allowed to be reproduced. If we can see it visually, it's just a spectacle of historical tragedy.
Humanity does not exist in concentration camps. The brilliance of the Nazis in "Schindler's List" is the injury to the victims of the past, and it is the self-conciliation of modern people to that cruel history.
At the beginning of the film everything is blurred, the figures are blurred, the corpses are blurred, the crematorium is blurred, the ashes are blurred. Only an over-the-shoulder camera can see the world in the eyes of the male protagonist, this blurry world that has lost the ability to perceive.
The film was shot on film, with a large aperture and a shallow focus lens, and the lens language took us back to the 1950s, completing the reproduction of that impossible history. Busy, depressing, bloody, soot. Visually take us to feel the theme of the film. Struggling but hopeless, wanting to become human, but inhuman encounters. That history shouldn't be presented as sweet candies wrapped in bitterness. This is a painful, dehumanizing history.
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