I've seen many videos about the holocaust and what happened behind the walls of the camps. However, I have never seen anything quite like Night and Fog.
They begin by taking us to the sites of what used to be the hell on earth for the prisoners of the time. Using simple cuts and a mix of current video and past film, they create a powerful time travel effect to make the audience feel as though they were at the camps during that time.
Watching the intensity of the videos added to the effect, giving the audience a sympathetic, fearful emotion throughout the video.
One of the most intense sections of the video, I thought, were the quick cuts between the videos and images of officers throwing malnourished corpses into ditches. It created an intense feeling of humanity in the audience to watch clip after clip of their fellow humans being treated like trash in a land fill.
The way the editor cut from video to video was simple, yes, but masterfully done. It created all of these emotions without adding special effects or fancy cuts.
There is power in a simple cut.
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