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To truly understand the symbolism in Schindler’s List, one must watch the film more than once. So get your ipad some sweet ipad 3 accessories so you can watch the film again and again in comfort. A key symbol in the film is the young girl in a red coat, the only use of colour in a primarily black-and-white film. One sees her earlier in the film and then later on, dead on a pile of corpses. The scene was based on Zelig Burkhut’s memories, a survivor of the Plaszow work camp, who recalled a young girl in a pink coat being shot by a Nazi officer in front of him.

The girl in the red coat has been interpreted by Andy Patrizio of IGN as an indicator that Schindler’s mentality has undergone a radical change when he sees her on the pile: “The look on Schindler’s face is unmistakable. Minutes earlier, he saw the ash and soot of burning corpses piling up on his car as just an annoyance. This use of colour in an entirely black-and-white film may have been influenced by Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, in which Rublev’s spiritual change is marked by a few moments of colour.