I have seen the film Schindler’s List only once when I was 16 years old. Yet this scene has remained with me ever since.
Schindler (to himself) I could've got more... if I'd just... I don't know, if I'd just... I could've got more...
Stern Oskar, there are twelve hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
He can't.
Schindler If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money, you have no idea. If I'd just...
Stern There will be generations because of what you did.
Schindler I didn't do enough.
Stern You did so much.
Schindler starts to lose it, the tears coming. Stern, too.
The look on Schindler's face as his eyes sweep across the faces of the workers is one of apology, begging them to forgive him for not doing more.
Schindler This car. Goeth would've bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people, right there, ten more I could've got. (looking around) This pin --
He rips the elaborate Hakenkreus, the swastika, from his lapel and holds it out to Stern pathetically.
Schindler Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would've given me two for it. At least one. He would've given me one. One more. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. One more. I could've gotten one more person I didn't.
We live in the 15th richest country in the world (GDP per capita) while 27,400 children die of preventable causes every day. What should our response be to the vast inequalities that make our lives possible?
