Looking at both films I can understand why people might say that Triumph Of The Will aestheticized the nazi party; for, it clearly was made to try and present the nazi party in a good way. But looking at Night and Fog i think it only showed the harsh reality of the Holocaust, and there is nothing beautiful about that.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
DRP's Work for blog post 4
Considering what we saw of the film Triumph Of The Will I believe that it is a propaganda film. Throughout the film they show very positive images, images of happy people, well fed soldiers, people having fun, even hitler descending from the heavens. All things might make it seem appealing for a person to join the nazi party.
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Diane Jones #4
Since "Night of the Fog" was a silent film with foreign text, it helped to set the Nazi Party's mood. Making them look like they cared for the people ,when they really didn't. I agree that it is a documentary because of the truth content, but since I have a little knowledge of the Nazi party's beliefs, making it look beautiful doesn't change what happened and how people were treated because their origin. A lot a cruel treatments were practiced and they enforced the law and governed as they wanted and no amount of aesthetics will hide or change what happened.
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