Blog 2 Night and Fog

This was my second time watching the documentary Night and Fog. The first time I watched it was when I was a senior in high school in my literature of the holocaust class. Watching it for the second time was just as powerful as watching it for the first time. Night and Fog was an intense documentary during the Holocaust about the world inside the Nazi death camps.  The film showed a completely different perspective with past and present images that were both haunting and graphic. It’s still so shocking to me that this actually happened; that people were starved, killed, and abused because of their views and beliefs. The film opened up to present day at an abandoned concentration camp. All of the present day shots were in color while the days in the concentration camp were in black and white. It’s so common to use black and white to indicate the past with images but it is still so influential on anybody who decides to watch. Just staring at those images and knowing that they were once filled with innocent prisoners was chilling. Then the film was so precisely edited with unsettling pictures and footage. The first image that comes to mind when someone says Night and Fog is how the deceased were treated. Their bodies never got to have a proper funeral; they were just tossed away like garbage. I don’t understand how people can treat the dead like that. It was a short documentary with a very large impact. The way the film was cut and put together was one of the main reasons I believe it is so well known and so powerful. The narration and the subtitles also helped the documentary reach its full potential.The images moved so fast but they will remain in my mind and never be forgotten.