just apologise?

Kaci 2022-03-21 09:02:46

It is difficult to describe the mood in the process of watching with some exact language. In this dark page that can never be forgotten in human history, all images and words seem to be too pale.

Compared with Schindler's list, the documentary video technique brings a kind of horror to the audience, and the despair contained in it is so deep into the bone marrow. Of course, it's not that Spielberg's movies are bad, but in the face of such a heavy history, any form of expression seems too child's play. Behind the rescue of more than 2,000 people is the tragedy of a full six million people. , the story selected in the film is a small cross-section in a tragic history of suffering. What should we do to truly look at this history correctly, and why do human beings do such unconscionable things to their own kind?

It is true that in the face of the sincere attitude and practice of the German government today, we really can’t ask for anything more, but what we should think about more is what human beings have reflected from this history, and how can we truly do it? To avoid the recurrence of tragedies, whether what human beings have done on certain historical development paths must be as reasonable as they seem on the surface, and whether there are so-called objective laws to control the development of history as a whole, or Humanity is currently unknowingly heading for the abyss step by step. The whole society is promoting the truth, the good and the beautiful, but in the end, the evil side of human nature is always shrouded in our heads.

The sins buried in the ruins are like an old monster falling forever under the rubble. When these images pass, we pretend to be hopeful again, as if the misery in the concentration camps is healed. We are blind to everything around us and deaf to the never-ending cry of human nature. Some people refuse to believe, or only temporarily believe that all this tragic thing only occurs once in a certain time and place.

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Extended Reading
  • Bennie 2022-01-12 08:01:14

    Although this is a documentary, it has a distinct style. Pulling from the quiet and peaceful countryside to the ferocious barbed wire fence, the first shot is thrilling. The contrast between the black-and-white expansion pieces, photos, and color images also gives people a sense of digging out details from history and looking for shock from calmness. Those slowly panning shots are very similar to the images in "Hiroshima Love". In the process of watching this film, I felt that there is not only one hell, but there are branches all over the world, because the Nazi concentration camp is so similar to the Jiabiangou rightist labor reform farm in China, except that the latter does not have a gas chamber.

  • Daron 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    No matter how moved, how angry, how sad, you are just a calm spectator.

Night and Fog quotes

  • Récitant/Narrator: 1933 - The machine gets under way. The nation must all sing the same song, with no wrong notes.

  • Récitant/Narrator: A concentration camp is built like a stadium, a grand hotel. You need contractors, estimates, competitive offers and no doubt friends in high places.