I was not in class on Monday, but I was able to watch the documentaries thanks to Youtube :)
I think the objectives of the two videos are completely different. "Triumph" was made to document the important political figure that Hitler was and the way in which he was able to rally together so many Germans. Whether you argue that it was propaganda as well or not, the fact is that the director wanted to show the facts. She wanted to show what was happening in Germany at that time.
"Night and Fog" has more of an emotional appeal to it. It's not simply documenting what happened, it is trying to get a reaction out of you based on how the Jewish population was treated.
I thought overall, both of the films were very interesting, but "Night and Fog" was more disturbing to me.
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I completely agree with you about Night and Fog, while I believe it's a very good documentary about what happened, of course it was very sad.
However perhaps Triumph of the Will was meant to get an emotional response out of you as well, I mean, there's a reason Andre called it the scariest movie of all time.
I think everyone thought the second movie was stomach hurting.
Yeah, Night and Fog was disgusting.
Does the music in Night and Fog do anything to your emotion? Or does it go against your emotions?
Why do you think that Resnais chose the music that he used in the film?
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