Silence is not an attitude

Daphney 2022-03-23 09:02:48

In 1956, director Alain Resnais used a camera to take the audience back to Auschwitz. Different shots in color and black and white tell the history of the present and the past, respectively.

Only 31 minutes of film, shocking footage, showing the most real Auschwitz concentration camp.

I believe that many people have seen the Sintler List. It is a highly rated movie that contains love and hate, but there are too many modifications and changes in storytelling angles that make the movie more acceptable to the audience. However, we History needs to be understood from different perspectives, and it is impossible to say which is true or not, but perspectives are important. More than three hours of storytelling does not have the shock of the 30-minute documentary. Some people may feel uneasy about some of the pictures in the film, but I believe that it is not the real photos that make you feel scared, but the scene at that time. In a real documentary, the director did not recreate some scenes of the story, but only through the shooting of real scenes and historical narration, which made people fall into the situation at that time. At the same time, there are a lot of real historical pictures.

This reminds me of the former site of the Lushun Japanese-Russian Prison in Lushun, Dalian.

The last narration in the film made me feel ashamed as I watched the film, did we just go through the past to feel comfort and hope for the status quo.

"When the memories go back in time we pretend to be hopeful again

as if we and the victims who were lied to in the camp were healed

We pretend it only happens once in one place, one time

We turn a blind eye

to the world and pretend we can't hear the incessant weeping of humans "

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Extended Reading
  • Josefa 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    A mighty force. The 32-minute period contains almost all the elements worth discussing about the Nazi concentration camps. Whether it is black humor or a calm examination, it is just right. Of course, the most shocking are the disgusting images. "Night and Fog" and "Hall of Catastrophe" are simply the two extremes of the Holocaust historical documentary, one long and one short, one fast and one slow, one video and one dictation, but the same is the jaw-dropping shock.

  • Josefa 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    There is no nonsense at all, and it is not sensational. The black and white film restores the original image at 24 frames per second.

Night and Fog quotes

  • Récitant/Narrator: Grass flourishes on the inspection ground around the blocks. An abandoned village, still heavy with peril. The crematoria are no longer used. The Nazi's cunning is but child's play today. Nine million dead haunt this countryside.

  • Récitant/Narrator: Who among us keeps watch over this strange watchtower to warn the arrival of our new executioners? Are their faces really different from our own?