Night and Fog

Night and Fog was very grim. The documentary starts out showing the early stages of the holocaust, it shows Jewish people being rounded up and loaded into train cars like cattle, all branded with David’s star on their jackets to indicate they are Jewish. What was even more shocking was that was the best treatment of Jews that you saw the entire movie. Night and Fog highlights the horrors that took place in these concentration camps. Hundreds of gas chambers with scratches on the walls, hundreds of cremators used to burn the thousands that died each day, soundproof vents used to hide the screams of someone being tortured and evil hospitals used to perform test on prisoners. These were only some of the images night and fog showed used to explain the system that oppressed and terrorized millions of people. As the movie progressed the scenes got more and more graphic inciting my emotions, the director’s point was made through pathos. The images of dead bodies and the complete lack of respect for them was a really powerful tool to highlight the horrible things that those prisoners went through. Many times in the movie i thought to myself that i didn’t even know some of these things happened, for example the hospitals. In Night and Fog they talk about the horrors that went on in the hospitals, testing chemicals on patients, cutting off limbs, and skin transplants with their health as the least of their concerns. Another thing that stuck out to me was the amount of bodies shown. In most scenes there was a dead body, they were everywhere and hundreds of them stacked up like landfills, left to rot. One scene that stuck out to me was the scene a SS soldier bulldozing bodies, it’s unimaginable that someone could bulldoze bodies unphased by what he sees. This movie was very effective at exposing the horrors of the holocaust and showing the awful atrocities that happened to the Jewish people.

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