Wednesday, November 5, 2008

sick to my stomach

I dont know why we picked those films...we should have picked the other one. Watching the Triumph film it made me kind of angry with Hitler and the Nazis he trained. He brainwashed the German population and gave them false hope for a better life in Germany. He came in like he was an almighty God here to be their savior. Instead he put any non-aryan race through hell and torchured them for kicks and giggles. In the Night and Fog film, it made me sick to my stomach, i needed to put my head down. I took a whole class on the Holocaust in high school and watched many movies and saw tons of pictures...i didnt want to see that again. The music tried to almost "sugar coat" what was really happening in the footage and pictures on the screen. The French narrator just didnt fit the film, either one from a Jewish or German community would have been better. It would have seemed more personal. From the burning bodies to the decapatated corpses, the tiny baracks to the crematories and gas chambers, what these family went through cant even be imagined. It was a very emotional film and the Triumph film was made to stir up emotion as well but also to show the mask that Hitler put on while he and his supporters ruined innocent lifes.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't worry I felt very sick to my stomach too.

A. said...

I chose to show those b/c I think that they deal very directly w/ the "Creativity and Conscious" theme of the class.

Did you think that they didn't fit w/ the Unit 3 questions or did you just think that they were really difficult to watch?

The narrator was in a concentration camp. That's why Resnais chose him.

A. said...

Or did you mean, "I don't know why [the class] picked those films"?