Schindler's List

[ Schindler (Liam Neeson) comes to rescue Helen from a colonel in the Nazi regime.  Helen is a slave to the colonel (for everything, including sexual things). ]

Schindler came to rescue Helen from her situation.  This is already at the point in the movie where Schindler has begun to realize he can save people through the scheme that he has using them as a "cheap labor." There are so many things from this clip.  To start with, Helen is so lost by her circumstances, but she rests on the fact that she can control something. She seeks to be in complete control.  She desperately tries to understand her circumstances so that she can live.  She takes the time to explain how the colonel had shot a woman for no reason.  She cannot fathom what she did wrong.  Schindler teaches her that it had nothing to do with the woman, but everything to do with the colonel.  It was the colonel that chose to be cold-blooded and kill on the spot for no reason. 

We attempt so often to control our circumstances or try to figure it out so that we can get by, but we are always bound by our circumstances.  Sometimes we have a lot of freedom to shape our circumstances to a better situation, but other times we are faced with the hard reality that our life is what it is. There are other people who make decisions, just like the colonel, or Schindler.   The amazing thing that this clip shows is that even when we are about to throw up our hands and say we have no control, and what is the point of existence, the in-breaking of grace happens.  

Schindler shows compassion.  He comes to the rescue of Helen, he is a person showing Helen that there is more to life.  Do not give up!  He shows her compassion for her plight by coming and rescuing her, but also by the kiss at the end.  "It is not that kind of kiss," it is a transformation even for Schindler because in the beginning of the film he was an opportunist, but now he is in it for the good of the other.  He loves Helen, not in a romantic way, but in a fatherly way.