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Schindler's
List
(1993)
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| Themes
 | Conversion
 | Schindler's change
in character from one who only wants to serve himself to one who
sacrifices his safety and wealth for others. |
| Another movie that follows this theme of
transformation through entering into relationship is Schindler's
List. (submitted by Edie Bird, Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
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| Freedom
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Clip from
Schindler's List (starting as the folks from the factory gather to
give Schinlder the ring - "He who saves one life..."
through them driving away dressed in prison clothes.
Luther in his
Small Catechism:
He has redeemed me, a lost and condemned person. He has
purchased and freed me from all sins, from death, and from the
power of the devil, not with gold or silver but with his holy,
precious blood and with his innocent suffering and death. He
has done all this in order that I may belong to him, live under
him in his kingdom, serve him in eternal righteousness, innocence
and blessedness, just as he is risen from the dead and lives and
rules eternally. This is most certainly true. (A
Contemporary Translation of Luther's Small Catechism)
John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so
that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have
eternal life.
Luther in his
lecture on Galatians: "By this fortunate exchange with us He
took upon Himself our sinful person and granted us His innocent
and victorious Person. Clothed and dressed in this we are
freed from the curse of the Law, because Christ Himself
voluntarily became a curse for us, saying: ‘For my own Person of
humanity and divinity I am blessed, and I am in need of nothing
whatever. But I shall empty Myself (Phil 2:7); I shall
assume your clothing and mask; and in this I shall walk about and
suffer death, in order to set you free from death."
(284)
Luther's
"Happy Exchange" (submitted by Pastor Jeff Whillock)
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| Friendship
| The relationship
between Schindler and Stern |
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| Guilt
| Amon Goethe (touching his reflection in a mirror):
"I pardon you." |
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| Holocaust |
| Hope
| Amon Goethe: "You're cruel Oskar. You're
giving them hope. Now *that's* cruel!" |
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| Institutional
Evil
| Holocaust, war, and
Schindler's initial participation in them presented as institutional
evil. |
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| Power
| Oskar Schindler: Power is when we have every
justification to kill, and we don't.
Amon Goethe: You think that's power?
Oskar Schindler: That's what the Emperor said. A man stole
something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself
down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to
die. And the Emperor...pardons him. It's a worthless man, he lets
him go.
Amon Goethe: I think you are drunk.
Oskar Schindler: That's power, Amon. That is power. |
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| Savior/Saving
| Schindler saves Jews
from the Holocaust. Stern saves Schindler from Schindler's own
destructive character. |
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| Scapegoat
| Amon Goethe: "They cast a spell on you, you
know, the Jews. When you work closely with them, like I do, you see
this. They have this power. It's like a virus. Some of my men are
infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They
should receive treatment because this is as real as typhus. I see it
all the time. It's a matter of money? Hmm?" |
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| War |
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