Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

In the film of schindler's list hollywood uses its ways to show the horror on the era of the holocaust.The holocaust was an evil event that had claimed the lives of so many innocent people and they were murdered and killed. Some of the things you will see in a film like this are very disturbing as well such as see people killed on the spot. Its sick how the officers don't even care as long as they are gone. One part of this movie that was like sad and touching was when they showed the kids, while the young adults and adults were in the selection stage the kids were being taken away. This was also touching because the kids didn't have a clue what was going on.
When they were on the big truck like vehicles being driven away they just waved bye and smiled. Shows you how innocence kills. Some of the kids did figure it out and tried to hide anywhere they could. I do have to say some kids were clever to hide under floorboards but the place is still a death camp. That was very sad to me because even if they did survive what would does kids do with their families probably dead and with no one to go to for refuge.
Oskar Schindler though being a German business man he saved the lives of thousands of Jews by employing them in his factories. The ending got sad because at the end he tells how he appreciated their help and that he had to leave because the americans would be looking for him. Also how at the end people went around his grave leaving rocks in gratitude of saving their lives. In my opinion this movie was better because it had more feeling and more emotions to it, it made the holocaust seems so realistic even though its a old movie.

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

"Night and Fog" is a documentary about the holocaust. It shows disturbing footage of what went on in concentration camps and Nazi's sick and inhumane behavior towards Jews. Also watching how the Jews were being treated in captivity under the Nazi control was just sick. After seeing all the dead bodies just pains me how so many people were killed. It also showed us actual photos of what had happened in the concentration camps.
This documentary was very much powerful because it was very real and showed me how the holocaust really was. I would just hear and read stories but never really watched anything , it was depressing to see the photos that were being shown. "Night and Fog" can very much compare to "Schindler's List" because they both showed very well how the holocaust was and it wasn't anything easy to watch. These two movies were very touching but I think schindler's list was more emotional with more facts to absorb from the movie.