Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Film lesson: Schindler's List

In "Schindler's List", a man named Schindler saved some Jews from death camps like Auschwitz and placed them into labor. What I don't get is this: the whole screen is shown in black and white, yet there is a girl with a pink jacket. (Can anybody respond to the question as to why is that possible?) What really moved me in the movie is how the Germans burned the camp and the dying Jews. It really made me cry a little.

To tell you the truth, I really like the documentary better. The whole event is more accurate in the documentary than the movie. However, the documentary was gruesome. Plus, both of them demostrate the horror of being in the Jew's position in the Holocaust.

Film lesson: Night and Fog

"Night and Fog" is a documentary that shows the negative effects of the Holocaust. When I first saw the movie, it fills me with horror to see so many Jews being killed by those evil Germans. The Germans even used the body's remains to make disgusting things like soap and wigs. It all seem like I've been there to see how depressed the Jews are, living in poor conditions. The documentary really had moved me.

What I also hate about the Holocaust is that the women and young kids had to die because they are useless. They shouldn't deserve that type of death. Some parts of the movie made me cry, while others made me feel anger. It is a very powerful movie that teaches them how the Jews suffered throughout the horrible events, from living in ghettos to dying at the death camps, especially at Auschwitz.