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Demarcus 2022-03-23 09:02:48

"Night and Fog", Alain Resnais, the representative of the French New Wave, was shot in 1955, ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.

Varda, the mother of the new wave, said: The effect of alienation is very effectively used, and the feelings are purified with reason and distance. This is called gaining passion through a structure that does not pursue sentimentality.

Before watching it, I thought I was mentally prepared. Facing the piles of deformed skeletons, the stripped human body, and the mountains of women's hair, heads, and soap made from human bodies, my heart was still intense. Shocked! Absolute restraint, not provoking the audience's emotions with a sensational tone, but carefully handling every detail, leading the audience into the channel of thinking about the theme of "memory and forgetting".

When these images are in the past, we pretend that this will only happen at a certain time and place, and pretend to face the sun of tomorrow with hope again!

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Extended Reading
  • Marcos 2022-03-21 09:02:46

    The whole is an epic, with narration, video, and soundtrack perfectly integrated. This is not shouting or berating, but just a quiet remark, but it arouses a huge echo in the hearts of the viewers. When you close your eyes, it will continue for a long time.

  • Uriah 2022-04-24 07:01:18

    Humanity itself is a contradiction and a mistake. The lens is convincing.

Night and Fog quotes

  • Récitant/Narrator: Death makes his first pick. Another choice is made in the morning in the night and fog.

  • Récitant/Narrator: When the Allies open the doors... all the doors... the deportees look on without understanding. Are they free? Will life know them again?