"Night and Fog" is not simply to show the audience the cruel and creepy past of the concentration camp, but also uses colorful video to constantly remind the audience to walk out of their memories, and uses commentary to guide the audience to think and reflect. It is not for the purpose of simply exposing and accusing the Nazis of persecuting Jews and their disregard for life, but also a constant warning to contemporary people to reflect and think about how to keep facing history squarely and avoid the same mistakes in the future and even now.
The most memorable passage: "Who among us is wary of new executioners? Are their faces really different from ours?" specific events and locations. We turn a blind eye to the suffering around us, pretending not to hear the incessant weeping of human beings.”
I'm actually reminded of that classic quote by Mark Twain:
"As long as we recall and reflect for a moment, we will see that there were in fact two epochs of terror in France, one in which the slaughter was carried out on impulse, and the other in which it was carried out indifferently and deliberately; one that lasted only a few months, the other that lasted only a few months. For thousands of years; one killed more than a thousand people, the other killed a hundred million. But we were only terrified of that small, short-lived era of terror. However, the death of a knife and axe in an instant is comparable to The slow slaughter of starvation, ruthless humiliation, cruelty and grief? Can the death of a flash of lightning be compared to the slow slaughter of cannon fire? The coffin filled in a fleeting age of terror is only a piece in the city The cemetery can hold it, but we are constantly told to tremble and cry for it. However, the real horror since ancient times, the indescribable and terrifying horror, the coffin it fills, even the whole of France It can't be accommodated. But no one told us that to see the scale of this terror, we must give due sympathy."
We are always flipping through history textbooks and old news materials, grief-stricken by the cruelty we spy on, but we always forget that we ourselves do not live in an era of absolute peace. The world is still dominated by Western hegemony and U.S. imperialism; terrorism and violent disputes are still raging in our immediate vicinity; and the shadow of postcolonialism is still looming and spreading in many corners of the world. We close our eyes and pretend that nothing will happen.
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