Night and Fog Documentary

The Night and Fog documentary is a very powerful documentary on the Holocaust. It shows, by choice of image, the terrible things that have happened to the people in the Holocaust. The narrator describes to the audience what is being shown in each scene and image, but it isn't really needed in this film because of how powerful the images truly are to the viewer.  Image is an extremely powerful medium. The images shown in the Night and Fog documentary were a very powerful and moving section of the film. The images were more shocking and more intense than the audio track itself. The fact that the documentary showed images in black and white, and then in color and then back in black and white showed that although it happened in the past, it can very well happen again; there is beauty in everything even horrors such as the Holocaust.  From most of the other documentaries I've seen (mostly health food documentaries) the main story is told by the audio track and spoken instead of this, which is shown. The soundtrack of the documentary adds some creepy moments in the film. A beautiful landscape in this documentary isn't what it seems. It has history, death and sadness woven through it’s past. I wonder if the documentary didn't have any sound at all, just how much more powerful the images would become because then the viewer has to really think of what they are seeing, paying attention to all of the fine details etc. Although in certain parts of the documentary, the sound doesn't technically sound like it should be associated with the images shown. For example, there are many parts where the soundtrack seems too “upbeat” for what is actually being shown on the screen itself. Overall, the Night and Fog documentary was a very powerful film that only really needed image to send its message across.