Silence is not an attitude

Daphney 2022-03-23 09:02:48

In 1956, director Alain Resnais used a camera to take the audience back to Auschwitz. Different shots in color and black and white tell the history of the present and the past, respectively.

Only 31 minutes of film, shocking footage, showing the most real Auschwitz concentration camp.

I believe that many people have seen the Sintler List. It is a highly rated movie that contains love and hate, but there are too many modifications and changes in storytelling angles that make the movie more acceptable to the audience. However, we History needs to be understood from different perspectives, and it is impossible to say which is true or not, but perspectives are important. More than three hours of storytelling does not have the shock of the 30-minute documentary. Some people may feel uneasy about some of the pictures in the film, but I believe that it is not the real photos that make you feel scared, but the scene at that time. In a real documentary, the director did not recreate some scenes of the story, but only through the shooting of real scenes and historical narration, which made people fall into the situation at that time. At the same time, there are a lot of real historical pictures.

This reminds me of the former site of the Lushun Japanese-Russian Prison in Lushun, Dalian.

The last narration in the film made me feel ashamed as I watched the film, did we just go through the past to feel comfort and hope for the status quo.

"When the memories go back in time we pretend to be hopeful again

as if we and the victims who were lied to in the camp were healed

We pretend it only happens once in one place, one time

We turn a blind eye

to the world and pretend we can't hear the incessant weeping of humans "

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Extended Reading
  • Alexa 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    [Private Photo] [Complete Works of Allen Resnais 5] "From the outside, the incineration house looks like a landscape postcard, and tourists are taking pictures in front of it today." The text of Zhan Karu. Alain brings the excitement of French literature into this documentary about Auschwitz. There is no word or imagination to describe it, no boundaries and no restless fear. In the night fog, they are passengers who will never appear again. Whose silhouette is shrouded in mist?

  • Reagan 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    We pretend that it will only happen once at a certain time and place, blind to our surroundings and deaf to the never-ending cry of humanity.

Night and Fog quotes

  • Récitant/Narrator: Those of us who pretend to believe that all this happened at a certain time and in a certain place, and those who refuse to see, who do not hear the cry to the end of time.

  • Récitant/Narrator: As I speak to you now, the icy water of the ponds and ruins fill the hallows of the mass graves, a frigid and muddy water, as murky as our memory. War nods off to sleep, but keeps one eye always open.