Why is Schindler's List shot in black and white and color?

The use of black and white tones is the uniqueness of this film, and the sharp contrast with color tones constitutes the double meaning of death and hope in the film.

This shooting technique is used in the following places in the film:

Slaughterhouse-

There seems to be only darkness in the city. A telephoto picture shows that Nazi soldiers are slaughtering Jews who were hiding in the Holocaust and were not killed. Windows in the city, one after another, light up with the sound of guns, which is unique to machine gun shooting. Kind of like the flash of a camera. Because it is night, because there are gunshots, it is particularly clear.

It's just that this kind of light is not like that kind of light and warmth, but the most ruthless extinction of one nation to another.

Everyone will die, children hiding in the cellar, men hanging under the bed, women in the piano. All legends about this country will be erased tonight, if possible.

These shots are a little torturing my visual nerve, I think. Even if I don't feel anything when I watch it. However, in retrospect, I suddenly have an impulse to burst into tears. Life at that time always seemed to be exactly the same as any species without spirituality. Slaughter, slaughter.

Flying little red skirt—

The massacre is going on. The streets are full of flying people and warm bodies that were shot down. This little red skirt may be the only place with color in the whole film. Black and white, red is very dazzling in black and white. Walk from one end of the street to the other and get under the bed of a house. A full face of anxiety and worry.

Perhaps this is Schindler's only hope of standing on the top of the mountain and watching the massacre.

Just staggered across the street. War and smoke seem to have nothing to do with this little girl. However, concealment, anxiety and worry tell us that war is actually related to this.

The little red skirt appeared twice. When he first appeared, he was already lying in the car carrying the body. The red skirt is still so eye-catching in that black and white.

This is only the first time. Maybe it's Schindler's hope The second time, Schindler's hope was completely destroyed by Bruno.

But when I look at it, it seems to be still flying. And this dance is more enchanting and moving than the first one. At that time, I saw tears in Schindler's eyes. Sensational and sad.

Red and dark. Light and death.

At the end of the film, the rescued "Schindler Jew" stands arm in arm on the horizon, and the picture gradually changes from black and white to color. At that moment, the frozen earth seemed to be filled with sunshine in an instant.