Friday, March 21, 2008

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"


Night and Fog was a documentary film about the Holocaust. The Night and Fog illustrates the lives of the Jew's and how they were treated by the Germans. This film showed the different ways Germany tried to kill the Jews as of using a gas chamber, shooting at the Jew's and the use of using the oven to burn the bodies. Night and Fog was more detailed and had better images of what went down during the Holocaust and explaining step by step what happened. Many Jewish people started to work for the Nazi's because they wouldn't be killed anytime soon because they were helping the Germans. The Nazi took everything they could find that belonged to the Jews from jewelry, to hairs, to shoes, and to their clothes leaving the Jews with nothing.

Both of these movies illustrated different point of views of the Holocaust. I think the movie illustrated the Holocaust better because they showed the beginning of the Jewish lives and in the movie they got straight to the point. It showed how Germany's army invaded the Jewish property and privacy and took full control very fast. The movie version made it easier to understand because they showed step by step but the documentary movie was much more powerful because it showed what happened after the end of World War II it didn't show the moment of the event.

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