Thursday, March 26, 2009

Schinlder's List

The movie of "Schinlder's List" was one of the most dramtic movies I have wathced in my life. It clearly shows what the Jews went through in the Holocaust. It shows how one group of workers, working for Oscar Schindler suffered in the Holocaust. They were moved over many places and suffered greatly in each place, watching comrades fall to the floor in a never ending sleep.
I have to pick the most powerful scenes in the movie would be Aushwitz and the children. Aushwitz was the biggest death camp wdere most of the people wre excecuted and even though the group of workers wasn't there for too long they suffered greatly. Their hair was cut off and they were threatened with the fake showers which beleive it or not, may damage the mind.
The children suffered horribly. At their innocent agethey had no idea what they had in store for them. They were all sent to be killed without knowing it. Meanwhile some children stayed behind in the camps hiding in small places. In "Schindler's List" they show of a boy who they were not allowing to hide with them because of the needed space. So he ran around until he reached the restroom and he jumped into one of the whole, into human droppings. To my surprise there was already kids in there, the whole thing was disgusting.
I beleive a couple of images from the movie will stay in my head. The image of the children hiding, the image of the deatgh camps, but mostly the image of the little girl with the red clothing. Earlier in the movie she was shown walking by the Nazi's into a home and hiding under the bed. Afterwards in a later scene the Nazi's are searching for Jews and there is nobody under the bed anymore. I assumed she was captured. Near the end, Schindler is witnessing the burning of bodies and in one of the wheelbarrows carrying bodies, was the little girl, dead.This is the image that will stay with me.

Night and Fog

The documentary of Night and Fog was very dramatic. The images shown are horrific and so harsh. The way some people were killed and killed themselves were simply, disgusting. They would jump onto the electic wires and kill themsleves, or simply crawl into the snow and die.
The film was very powerful as there were dead bodies lying everywhere. The suffering that the Jews had to go through was devastating. The live footage of the events were harsher than any movie I have ever seen related to the Holocaust. Compared with "Schindler's List" the live footage was a bit more harsh in the way they try to get the message through. The re-make of the extermination of the Jews in the movie was harsher by the fact that it has audio and the peoples screams have a bigger effect on you when you can hear it instead of just imagining it.
I still beleive the Holocaust was shown more effectively in the movie of "Shindler's List." It shows the clear suffereing of the Jews of all ages. Especially of the young which were taking big risks in making sure they would not be taken to extermination. But most of all it shows almost evyerthing shown in "Night and Fog" with audio that makes one feel the suffering even more, and get the picture that the Holocaust was the worst event to ever happen to mankind.