Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"
My reaction to Night and Fog is speechless. I found it pretty powerful, a little too powerful, but it`s not a entertainment film, I guess. It didn`t compare to anything I saw in the movie. Everything was so real in the documentary, the footage was harsh and vivid, but very straight foward. No questions could be asked. The documentary illustrated the Holocaust more effectively. It just showed everything, raw and untouched. You knew everything from the movie was real, just the documentary just
was real. And scary. Pretty convincing, seeing how every scene had a dieing or disgustingly dead person. Impacted me kind of hard there.
Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"
"Schindler`s List" illustrated the Holocaust from a good perspective. It showed how brutally murdered the jews were. I think the most powerful scene was the burning of the body, when the girl in the red dress was being wheeled into the fire. The symbolism of the little girl really showed the guards were unremorseful. You would of thought she would live. That was the only image that stayed in my head.
US Atomic Bombing of Japan in 1945
No, I don`t think that the US Atomic Bombing is the #1 news story of the century. I think that President Kennedy`s assasination was more than that. I would add Dr. Martin Luther kings assasination, I would also add the Columbine high school massacre. I would the assasination because it meant the end of life for one of the most powerful civil rights leader in history. I would add the Columbine school massacre because it showed the rest of the world the extent teenagers can be pushed to. And it was one of the most fatal high school stand offs.
