Already Viewed-"Schindler's List"

So before I start to knock off some movies from my list, I am going to talk about the 9 movies that I have already seen. Then after I talk about these 9 I will start to dwindle down the list!

The first movie that I have already seen is "Schindler's List". Movie from 1993(the year I was born), directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, and Ben Kingsley. The movie is set in Poland during WWII. It centers around a man named Oskar Schindler, a greedy businessman who turns his factory into a refugee for Jews. He ends up saving roughly 1100 Jews from being gassed in Auschwitz. The first time I saw this movie was when I was in the 8th grade so about seven years ago. I remember we had to get our parents signatures in order to see the movie because it is rated R. We all got to have a day off from classes and the whole 8th grade class crowded into the auditorium. I remember I sat next to my cousin Ali and my crush at the time named Joe. I remember I was very giddy that I got to sit next to him and happy that I had decided to wear the jeans that hid my muffin top and made me feel skinny. When the movie started I thought there is no way I would be able concentrate when Joe was sitting next to me, especially when I was thinking of ways to flirt with him. However, once the movie started I could not keep my eyes off of it. Being in black and white, you would think it would be hard for a 13 year old to sit through it, however I was enraptured. I was just starting to become the history buff that I am today, and this movie jump started my desire to find out anything I could about WWII. I loved the actors in their roles, and I thought they each made their characters come alive. I hated Oskar Schindler at the beginning and then learned to love him at the end. I cried when at the end he said that if only he had given things up like his wedding ring so he could have saved more people. I despised Ralph Fiennes with a passion, especially when he was on his balcony shooting Jews for pleasure. Of course one of the moments that caught my eye was the girl in the red coat. Since the movie is primarily in black and white, the red coat that the little girl was wearing is significant. Many people have different opinions on what the red coat meant. Most say it represents the blood shed during this period, or how Schindler changes throughout the movie. For me, it represents the death of innocence. Not only because the person wearing the red coat was a young child, but because every person involved in this tragic period lost a part of their innocence. Call me unrealistic but I like to believe that ever person holds a part of their innocence throughout their lives. Personally, I am almost 20 years old and I still sleep with a teddy bear and wake my mom up when I have a nightmare. For all the survivors of the holocaust and their families, and everyone affected by this monstrous time, they all lost a part of their innocence. I think the red coat was there to show how even if someone survived this moment, they still were affected by the blood.
 All in all, this is indeed a classic 20th century movie and I highly recommend it to anyone, even those not interested in history because this movie shows how some people still felt something for their fellow human beings.