A Film Unfinished Response
I was not sure what to think of the
first half of the film. I thought the film was supposed to be a random
collection of different cuts from a cameraman who filmed different areas of Germany.
E fact that the first half or so was staged with actors and was meant to
portray the current situations of people didn’t make any kind of impact on me.
The second half, however, is what I expected from the film. A man browsing the
streets of the ghetto recording the agony of the people that had nothing to
their names and no confidence that their situation would improve. The lives of
those people were gone long before they’re deaths. The emptiness was not just
in their stomach, but it was n their eyes as well. Nearly every year the Holocaust
gets touched on whether it is a history or English class, but I have never seen
actual footage of anything from that time and it touched me very deeply. My great
grandmother was in a concentration camp but died when I was too young to
remember her. It is very eye-opening to see what these people went through, and
not just from a documentary that people that were not actually there put together.
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