Stephanie Urrutia
"A Film Unfinished"
I myself do not understand the human capacity. I do not understand the capacity someone has to degrade, waste, and destroy life as was shown in "A Film Unfinished". We are created as evil creatures that are capable of many things. Jews at this time in history were the sad subject of this cruelty. It makes me want to cry for them. I would not have had the strength to go through what they did without going completely mad. The saddest part of this film to watch was the burial of all the bodies. Along with the small shack that held 50-60 bodies before they were taken to that final resting place in cramped, shallow graves. Most were killed by starvation.
I began to wonder to myself, what I could have done to help this defeated race if I were alive in the 1940’s. The Germans planned to use these videos to deceive, fool, and manipulate other forces to believing how they did. Would I have really known the truth about Jews? Would I have had the strength to see through these lies, and make my own assumptions? As stated by the testimonials in the film, “They made the pretty waitresses stand outside as the children walked by with their hands out. They were instructed to give them nothing. It was obvious what they were doing. Portraying Jews as leading rich, comfortable lives, but still not giving to those in need.” They had no real proof as to why the Jews needed to be exterminated, so they made it up. They lied, murdered, cheated, and sadly no one could seem to stop them. Hopefully we, as a global society have learned from this wrenched occurrence. I hope this level of massacre has softened the hearts of those who hate for almost no reason at all.
"A Film Unfinished"
I myself do not understand the human capacity. I do not understand the capacity someone has to degrade, waste, and destroy life as was shown in "A Film Unfinished". We are created as evil creatures that are capable of many things. Jews at this time in history were the sad subject of this cruelty. It makes me want to cry for them. I would not have had the strength to go through what they did without going completely mad. The saddest part of this film to watch was the burial of all the bodies. Along with the small shack that held 50-60 bodies before they were taken to that final resting place in cramped, shallow graves. Most were killed by starvation.
I began to wonder to myself, what I could have done to help this defeated race if I were alive in the 1940’s. The Germans planned to use these videos to deceive, fool, and manipulate other forces to believing how they did. Would I have really known the truth about Jews? Would I have had the strength to see through these lies, and make my own assumptions? As stated by the testimonials in the film, “They made the pretty waitresses stand outside as the children walked by with their hands out. They were instructed to give them nothing. It was obvious what they were doing. Portraying Jews as leading rich, comfortable lives, but still not giving to those in need.” They had no real proof as to why the Jews needed to be exterminated, so they made it up. They lied, murdered, cheated, and sadly no one could seem to stop them. Hopefully we, as a global society have learned from this wrenched occurrence. I hope this level of massacre has softened the hearts of those who hate for almost no reason at all.
we are not created as evil creatures, we are taught to be the evil creatures
ReplyDeleteI couldnt agree more how wrong it was that they were being portrayed as living such a good life but in reality they were suffering. I dont know what I would do if i was around in that time. Try to help and be punished for it or keep my mouth shut?
ReplyDeleteI agree that the film was orchestrated to fool people. To me it was saying why should anyone care about the Jews when they don't even care about themselves, or others like them that are suffering. It was a really sick thing and really hard to watch.
ReplyDeleteYour response brought up the question "What if this did get out?" I wonder how the people would have reacted to this film and what secenes would have been used.
ReplyDeleteI like Devan's question. "What if this got out?" He said, "I wonder how people would have reacted..." but as a modern example, take a look at something from this country. On September 11, 2001, America was attacked and what did our government do? They propagandized all they could to make people hate Iraq (the wrong country) and now many people don't know we should have been attacking Iran... That was simple propaganda, so I imagine had Das Ghetto been released, the results could have led to a bodycount rising far beyond the 6 million...
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone will truly understand the human capacity to murder and take what is not ours to take. But those are animal instincts and really we are just another animal on this planet. Our problem is that we believe that because we have opposable thumbs and walk upright that we are better than others. Yet we do act like savages.
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