Film Unfinished

Landon Gardner

Eng Comp 101-101

Mr. Neuburger

19, March 2013

A Film Unfinished

            I have read a few books about the holocaust and have watched a few Hollywood movies about it, but I have never seen actual footage of it. I could not believe how bad it actually was I knew they lived in less than optimal conditions but I had no idea that they were that bad. The starvation was something I had never seen. Starvation is what hit me hardest when watching the movie to see how skinny some people were, it was as if their bodies were caving in on themselves. When they showed videos of the dead bodies they didn’t even look like people, they looked like bones with just a small layer of skin over them. Just the amount of pain and suffering these people went through is truly remarkable; to see friends and family being taken from you not know whether they were dead or alive and looking through garbage just to find food. It also amazes me how conniving the Germans were sitting up situations and filming them trying to trick Jews about the truth of ghetto life. I never knew that they would just let the bodies of those who died of starvation just lay around. How someone could do this with a clear conscious is way beyond me. It really goes to show how evil people can truly be. It also amazes me at how long it took for anyone to do anything about it. It also struck me at how the Jews just became so desensitized to death and the mistreatment of others, know if they tried to help others it would just inflict more pain on them. There was one survivor in the movie who I believe said “I couldn’t cry for them then, in fear of what they might do to me, but now I can cry and I thank God that I can cry.”