Film Lesson: Schindler's List

The Hollywood version of the Holocaust directed by a Jew Steven Spielberg. It tell the true story of the people saved by a member of the National Socialist party, the Nazis. The man was Oscar Schindler. He was a factory owner who made ammunition's for the German army. This was hugely profitable to him because he did not have to pay the people who worked for him because they were Jews. The most striking scene in the movie was the one with the girl in the red dress. This was the most striking because the entire movie was in black and white and through the confusion of the transportion from ghettos to the camps. A young girl gets lost looking for her mother. Later on she ends up in a wheelbarrow with other girls all of whom are dead. This was the most striking because it showed innocence being punished for doing nothing wrong other than being born in the wrong house. Oscar Schindler who saw the girls dead body felt a chill going through the course of his entire body. The scenes from the movie that were the disturbing were the killings in cold blood. Cold blood killings like that are the kind of killing that stay and change you forever. To kill someone like that with no emotion is savage. Oscar Schindler saw this and didn't want blood on his hands. The Hollywood version was the one that was more describing of the holocaust.

Film Lesson: Night and Fog

The documentary Night and Fog which was made by the French is a documentary on the Holocaust. The documentary showed the concentration and death camp know as Auschwitz. This camp was the mass murderer of millions of jews. The scenes of the camps buildings and the facilitys there were the most striking. The dormatories were one of the most shocking ones. The other scenes which showed the gas chambers in which millions of jews were killed. This documentary was more efffective at telling about the Holocaust rather than the hollywood version Shindler's List. This is because in hollywood everyone likes a happy ending. The truth is there was no happy ending.