Film Lesson: Night and Fog

Night and Fog was a really powerful film documentary. I have never seen anything like it. It was great to see how it all looks like now, how the green grass has grew at the camps, as it almost looks like a peacful area. However after seeing the wired electrical fences and the various buildings, you can't even imagine the terror that must have occured.

Unlike Schindler's list, Night and Fog only used actual footage from the holocaust. I think that, that made this film stronger because all the gruesome footage that you saw, you know definatelly was not made up. I think that the documentary illustrates the holocaust more efficiently as it makes you deeply imagine how things occured at those camps, like when they showed the gas chamber with the nail scratchings on the concrete roof. Another example is when they showed that there was actually a prison in the camp! People were in such a tight fit in the prison that they could not lie down or crouch, and the documentary explained how the windows were not soundproof which gives you the idea of all those desperate people just screaming, crying, and loosing their minds.

Schindler's list I think is least powerful only because it was not completely actual footage. However most of the footage was definatelly accurate to what really happened. Schindler's list is great in that it lets you visualize what occured after imagining the terrors that occured at the camps. It is also longer than the documentary and not only showed footage of the camps, it showed footage of parts like the ghettos. They were both great and powerful films.