Night and Fog

I left Rolf's hall on Friday with a weird and disgusting feeling to my stomach. This is so because of the viewing of the horrifying French-made screening, "Night and Fog." This movie was a documentary styled film that showed a clips during and after the dreadful Holocaust. The sights in the film were ghastly and disturbing. I have seen or visually experienced anything this graphic dealing with the Holocaust. I believe that the film was very well directed and got a strong point across of how wrong this experience was for the people who had to endure this journey. One of the best features of this short film was the narrative voice who led us as viewers on a very disturbing yet educational journey to and after the many concentration camps built to hold the Jews. The deep male voice spoke his words with a great sense of depression and loss. His voice alone, without video footage, could have told how horrifying this tragic event was. Another main Factor in this film was the soundtrack playing in the background. All of the music made every scene more and more depressing as the movie progressed. Music to me in all films and movies is what makes a scene, a lot of great movies would not be as good if the right selection of music was absent. The music in films is what really "hits home" and touches one's heart. Also, this film showed both colored and black-and-white footage. All of the footage done to show the camps after the Holocaust was done in color and the footage done during was in all black-and-white. My belief as to why the movie was done this way is to create an even more state of depression while watching the scenes of during the Holocaust. The color shot were to show the peacefulness of the camps when there was no violence.
-Coulter