Schindler's list was a great and pretty accurate movie on the Holocaust. It was a good idea to make it in black in white, since it went more with that time. making it in black in white would also easily allow actual footage to be put into the movie, as they were all in black in white. As I viewed it the scenes that were most powerful to me as a viewer are the liquidation of the ghettos, where they send all the jews to concentration camps. It was sad to see how ruthless the Nazis were against the jews and how they killed anyone that showed anykind of refusal.
One image from the film that will stay with me is when they showed the entrance to Aushwitz, when Schindler's women workers were accidentally transported to the death camp. It was a pretty scary sight from knowing so much of the terrors that occured there. It was also a crazy sight when they showed all the burned bodies being packed up, when the camp was being rid of evidence, as everyone including the Nazis were goin crazy from the killing and smell. It must have been really freaky having all the human ashes "snow" down.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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.
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.
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