“A Film Unfinished”
Billy Essick
After watching the film, many questions were unanswered that I wanted to know. What was the main reasoning behind it? How could people live with themselves? A good person would have helped those poor souls out. The film showed great scenes of just how bad it was, seeing young men my age that looked like they were ninety years old was very disturbing to me. People of the ghetto lying on the streets half dead, and in some cases they were dead. I am not the kind of person to just walk by, I would help that person as of many people in society today would. Very un-humane to video and not do anything about the ghetto. Though it was true that the ghetto was over populated by the Jews, the streets were full of them, what was this due to? Was it just so many people shoved in a tiny place? Or was it just lots of Jewish people that had a few babies? I don’t understand why the Jews as being the “large body” of people didn’t come together to over throw the ruling body. Also wondering why, though I know partly why, but why they videoed the richer Jewish eating at nice places and such. I’d like to see more of the ghetto, more videos to see just what really went on. Just what are they leaving out in that video, what were they going to finish up the movie with, are all answers they probably will not be answered for a long period of time. All in all I liked the movie though it was graphic; it showed the real down to earth things, starvation, overpopulation, non adequate housing, etc. Wondering if our world today will become similar to the Jewish ghetto, if we continue to grow we will be on our way.
6 comments:
The Nazis hated Jews extremely and were cold-hearted monsters that is why they did not help. Also the Jewish people were too weak, too old, or too young, to fight back as well as being comprised of mainly civilians. However, there were Jews that fought back and made a large impact, Give the movie Defiance a try it is based on two Jewish brothers that were part of the resistance of German influence.
It was so unreal how harsh the Germans treated the Jews, who walked the same streets that they walked. Who lived in the same place that they did. I would like to see more about this as well, but I'm not sure if I would be able to handle it.
I have to agree that I question the true motive behind the filming and was left hanging with the question: What were they trying to show the viewer? What was the actual propaganda being represented? Even those shown in the lap of luxury were not the faces of happy, well adjusted people.
Thanks Scott i will sounds interesting
Do you remember the scene from the latest Sherlock Holmes film where Sherlock ruined dinner by saying that Watson's fiancee was using him as a new, young source of wealth and when she and Watson left in a fume, he put on a straight face and kept on eating? That is a very scaled down version of what I saw in this film only instead of the perpetrator getting a glass of wine in the face, it was everyone else in the restaurant. We as humans have a bad habit of projecting our own ficticious ideas and images onto others, thereby skewing the true images we see in life. When people rely on their governments for the truth, the will follow blindly and as long as it doesn't affect them directly, they'll wipe the wine off their face, put their head high and go on with dinner regardless of the ongoing commotion
I enjoyed reading your response to this film. It was composed rather nicely.
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