Carlie
Allison
Mr.
Nueburger
Composition
II
23
March 2013
A Film Unfinished
There are very few things that
surprise me anymore about what the Nazi's did to the Jews during the Holocaust,
but this was an exception. I find
everything they do deeply disturbing in the film. The way that they depict life for some Jews in
the film as being in a well off home with multiple rooms, looking healthy and
clean, and staging these scenes to make it look like they're carrying on with
their lives. I really don’t understand this little project of the Nazi's
because they were filming more than just the set up scenes. They were filming
the actual lives of these people, and I know that the Nazi's didn’t want the
rest of the world knowing what they were actually doing. They wanted to make
sure there was no evidence. It's seems
to me a waste of time for the Nazi's even for propaganda purposes, but then again
how can I make sense of what was reasonable in the Nazi mind? The film shows
very disturbing footage of what the people in the Warsaw ghetto were willing to
ingest and where they found some of these things to eat. It just goes to show what people are really
willing to do in order to survive no matter how repulsive it gets. Some of the
survivors talk about how they could really start to tell which ones were
starving and which ones were starving but going to survive. They were trying to
explain that the spirit of the person meant everything. It meant whether you
were going to live or die in some cases. It was very heartbreaking to hear one
woman saying, as she watched the footage, how she just kept waiting to see her
mother walking around on the street before she died. The beginning of the film
is much easier to stomach than the end of the film. Everything just gets
progressively worse. People are dying on the streets right and left and no one
is really paying attention to it anymore because it becomes the norm for
someone to just slump over on the sidewalk, dead. It's hard to fathom.
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