Film Lesson: Night and Fog

My reaction to Night and Fog was that I was not that surprised for what I was seeing because I had been studying the Holocaust for years and I even read a book on it so I already knew what I would expect to see from a Holocaust documentary and it just furthered my disgust for the Nazis. I do think the film was pretty powerful in that it was not a book or a movie but real life events that were being shown and you could see for your self what they had done and even though Schindler's List was pretty accurate in their views of the Holocaust the scenes from the Documentary were more powerful because there were no actors or directors to say cut but real life people. So overall I think the documentary showed the Holocaust more effectively because they were showing the murders and burning of bodies and the madness of the Holocaust in action and it was not full of actors with fake blood or anything but real life people that were being slaughtered like animals.

Film Lesson: Schindler's list

There were many ways that the movie illustrated the horrors of the holocaust because that is what the movie was intended to do. But the scene that stuck to me was when the nazis were burning the bodies and one of the nazis started screaming and laughing and then he started to shoot at the already dead burning bodies. That showed me just how sick and cruel they were and they showed no remorse or guilt for what they were doing and it also ruined them phsychologically.