What I liked about "Night and Fog" was that it was a documentary. You were able to see everything happen in the real locations of the holocaust, although everything happening in the movie was based on a true story. Many seems were pretty horrific but it was to get the meaning of what happened, at that time, across to the audience. I liked that Alain Resnais, the director of the movie, was not afraid to show things that could offend people.
Although I must agree the movie was powerful, I didn’t like that we had to see it with subtitles and that they didn’t have a translation for it. Unfortunately, for me movies with subtitles can sometimes start to become boring for me. I can even end up getting confused with the voice and the words. This leads me to getting distracted. That’s the only negative for me about “Night and Fog”. But this doesn’t take away from the meaning of the movie.
When you compare this movie to “Schindler’s List”, many say that “Night and Fog” wins by far. I believe that both are very hard hitting movies. I like the fact that “Schindler’s List” was in English though. But some scenes in “Schindler’s List” will probably never match up to those in “Night and Fog”. “Schindler’s List” had the basic shooting scenes with the blood and etc. But the whole point of Resnais documentary was to make you feel like you were there.
I guess that’s the difference between a documentary and a Hollywood movie. With a documentary you can feel Goosebumps because you know that actually happen. On the other hand the Hollywood versions are someone’s thoughts out in a big screen.
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