Night and Fog
I watched this film a while back, and it was really a film that stuck with me. This is a short documentary in black and white, about the concentration camps and I must say it is quite powerful. It's a different kind of powerful though. When we watch a movie like Schindler's list or The Pianist, the mystique of the Hollywood story pulls us in, enchants us, and wines and dines us. It is all made possible with the magic of movie making. With emotion, story, script. And while it is all very affecting, there is something different about Night and Fog. The narration is monotone. It feels like what it is. A documentation of what went on. It feels like somebody going through a filing cabinet and reading off the facts of the case. This gives way to a chilling striking reality. Everything shown on screen isn't makeup and actors digging deep for a striking performance. It is chilling reality that reminds us how humans treated one another a few decades ago, and how not much has changed.