In turn this film accomplishes many of it’s goals, however there is one goal that transcends itself above the rest and becomes the most apparent as seen throughout the movie. It is the goal, to make people question their own morality as well as the morality of the volunteers that made up the death camp. It is through are early emotions as well as our morality that we come to a quick judgment that they are as guilty as the S.S for killing millions of people, however before passing judgment, we need to question our own morals to determine if placed in a similar situation, does oneself follow his morals and allow yourself to be murdered or do you follow your humanistic drive to survive and participate in the evils that are being asked of you. It is through this moral question that we must not judge but feel compassion for those who chose to survive rather then die. For those who chose life over death, witnessed a life of million deaths and experienced a fate far worse then any death could bring.

The holocaust documentary, Night and Fog, by Alain Resnais delivers a very disheartening and very much surreal effect to the film. It is through his use of black and white film and true nazi film footage of Auschwitz, that we arrive at a reality that transcends all other. We are shown scenes of unspeakable and unthinkable events, which were we see scenes of soap being manufactured from prisoners’ fat, to mountains of womens’ hair, to human skin being used as wallpaper and mass graves of thousands being buried by bulldozers. This documentary tries to demonstrate the horrors experienced each day by the prisoners of Auschwitz and other concentration camps. The images shown throughout the film are so graphic and violent they become burned into your memory. This documentary becomes a gateway or the eyes into the past for people and the world to view the camps for the horrific, inhuman and dehumanization of life as they were set up to be. This documentary shows the world the inevitable fate of millions and makes them open their eyes, so that they can no longer claim ignorance and deny responsibility to the events of the holocaust. It through the use of certain distinct aspects such as upbeat music while showing such gruesome images and using the very cold, sarcastic and detached reading by the narrator who was also a survivor of Auschwitz, that gives “Night and Fog,” a distinct, surreal feeling to the entire film.

Some topics in this essay:
Steve Buscemi, Grey Zone”, Alain Resnais, Arquette Hoffman, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Roman Polanski, War II, Primo Levi, Jews Leaving, Jews Leading, warsaw ghetto, grey zone”, “the grey zone”, “the grey, burning millions, “grey zone”, twelfth sonderkommando, own lives, own life, jewish prisoners, strong sense, millions innocent jews, living warsaw ghetto, preserve one’s own, women twelfth sonderkommando,