Thursday, March 25, 2010

Film: Schindler's List

Schindler's List was somewhat of a powerful movie. It wasn't as bad as Night and Fog but it had its moments. The reason it cant be as powerful as Night and Fog is because its a movie with actors and they have to act it out. In Night and Fog the Jews weren't acting you could really feel the pain in them. Night and Fog had real footage of what happen to them in the Death Camps, just waiting to die. Its the worst thing knowing your gonna die but having to wait until they decided to kill you is worst.

The only part that really affected me in Schindler's List was when the Nazi lined up couple of Jews in a straight line and then shot one bullet to save up ammo, it left me shocked that they cared more about the cost of the bullets then the lives of the Jews they were taking with the one bullet. I though it was a great thing that Oscar Schindler did for the Jews. He wasn't able to save all but he did the best he could and managed to save couple hundred of them.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Night and Fog

The movie Night and Fog is a documentary about the Holocaust it was made 10 years after WWII ended at Auschwitz. The documentary shows footage of the Nazi mass killing and starving the Jews. When I saw Night and Fog, my reaction was just sickening because if you imagine your self in the shoes of the Jews it sad.The Nazi first just wanted to kill Jews in ghettos, but it wasn't killing them fast enough. Then the Nazi tried shooting them but that was costing too much money then the Nazi started gassing them and was the fastest way. The Nazi would send them to death camps (like Auschwitz) to work with no pay and barely any food.

Night and Fog and Schindler's list shared alot of the same images. But that's because the director of the Schindler list took scenes from Night and Fog for his Movie. The difference between Night and Fog, and Schindler's list is that Night and Fog is a documentary with real footage of Jews suffering. And Schindler's list is a Hollywood version of it. I think that Night and Fog is too grafic but gets right to the point of the Holocaust.