“A Film Unfinished’
The original film was supposed to make people believe that the Nazi party was being humane and giving the Jewish people a life of luxury. My question is, where was the luxury part? Sure, three healthy looking people got to eat what they normally eat a day, but what about the ones who were starving and had to smuggle food into their house to eat for the first time in a month.
My next question is, what was the propaganda? If they really wanted to make a propaganda film then they would not have shown the guards taking food away from children, leaving bodies on the side of the street, and then just throwing them in to a big hole in the ground. The ones who carried the bodies from the street to the burial site were just as bad as the guards, they would drop a body and act if it was just a piece of food that had dropped on the ground and didn’t really care. That part of the film was the most depressing, mainly because it was like the Jewish people were animals that no one cared about.
If I was given an opportunity to watch this film again, I would decline the offer. Watching the film was horrific the first time and I don’t think it will be any better the first time. The film showed slowed scenes which allowed you to analyze the whole screen to see what else was going on in the background and in the people’s faces. I think that watching this film again would be like watching the slowed scenes, you would be able to catch things that you wouldn’t have seen the first time through. I would not wish anything that I saw on this film, on to anyone. The people who survived are greatly thought of by hundreds of people, they did not have the luxury we have today. Appreciate what you have and the people around you, because in a split second everything can be taken and gone forever.
The original film was supposed to make people believe that the Nazi party was being humane and giving the Jewish people a life of luxury. My question is, where was the luxury part? Sure, three healthy looking people got to eat what they normally eat a day, but what about the ones who were starving and had to smuggle food into their house to eat for the first time in a month.
My next question is, what was the propaganda? If they really wanted to make a propaganda film then they would not have shown the guards taking food away from children, leaving bodies on the side of the street, and then just throwing them in to a big hole in the ground. The ones who carried the bodies from the street to the burial site were just as bad as the guards, they would drop a body and act if it was just a piece of food that had dropped on the ground and didn’t really care. That part of the film was the most depressing, mainly because it was like the Jewish people were animals that no one cared about.
If I was given an opportunity to watch this film again, I would decline the offer. Watching the film was horrific the first time and I don’t think it will be any better the first time. The film showed slowed scenes which allowed you to analyze the whole screen to see what else was going on in the background and in the people’s faces. I think that watching this film again would be like watching the slowed scenes, you would be able to catch things that you wouldn’t have seen the first time through. I would not wish anything that I saw on this film, on to anyone. The people who survived are greatly thought of by hundreds of people, they did not have the luxury we have today. Appreciate what you have and the people around you, because in a split second everything can be taken and gone forever.
2 comments:
I get where you are coming from but the camera men were filming everything. This film never got edited to be turned into a propaganda film so all the bad is seen as well.
I agree with what you said. However, I feel compelled to mention that the Nazis planned to shoot the film as an "objective observer". I recall hearing so in the video.
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