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Thursday, December 16, 2010
PERIOD - 7 "THE GREY ZONE"
This week you watched "The Grey Zone."The film chronicles the Sonderkommando's struggle to carry out the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz.Please post your reflections about the film.
15 comments:
Annie Meaney
said...
I thought the film was very creepy and disturbing. I still have trouble beleiveing that this actually happened, seems more like a horror film to me!! I cant imagine the trauma and horror the Jews had to face.
I'll Always remember the ovens as being more horror exposing then Hell. That place is Hell. Mindless people carry out the unthinkable. Sadly I think the girl ran off to get shot intentionally because she saw first hand the amount of life taken from beings that she herself knew she would have to live with, therefore she gave the Nazi's excuse to shoot her after maraculously surviving the gas chamber
I thought this was a disturbing film. I couldn't believe the Jews were throwing their own people into the ovens. Another scene that left an impression on me was at the end, when they layed the men down on the grown and executed them one by one.
The film we watched this week showed how the Jewish race was treated in the camps. It was interesting to see the Jewish people that turned on their own people in order to keep themselves alive while they worked alongside the Nazi's. I imagined myself as one of the Jewish peoples who were sent...Just knowing you have to work so hard and your end result will be death is hard to comprehend. These people knew a revolt would give the Nazi's exactly what they wanted, but I give them credit for trying
I think that this is one of the most powerful films we have seen so far because it showed what really happened in the camps and showed what some Jewish people had to or chose to do while there. At first it was shocking to see what they were doing to other Jewish people but it was clear that they were only doing it to live. I found the ending very sad especially when the girl was runnign away and was killed. I thought that what the Jewish workers tried to do was very barve and the fact that they werea ble to destroy nearly half of the ovens was amazing.
I agree with Sarah that this was one of the most powerful films that we have watched all year. I had always believed that the Nazis did all of the dirty work. The fact that they had Jewish people convincing other Jewish people that everything would be alright was much more disturbing. As the ending rebellion began, I believed that the Jewish people could survive. This belief was crushed as I witnessed the final scene where even the girl was shot.
I though that this was one of the hardest movies and most powerful movie i have seen. I just can't beleive that a group of people felt as though they could do what they did too the Jews. However, i was very happy when I saw the Jews fight back and caused the uprising it just goes to show that even though at any moment you could have been killed, it didnt stop them from giveing it an attempt knowing full well they would be killed either during the process or after.
This film is sad, yet accurate statement abou the atrocitites that took place within the death camps during the nazzi regime. The horrors that took place within are barely seen though: it is impossible to relive and to try and teach another person what happened. I agree with Matt- Auschwitz was hell. The idea that people would willing submit others to unthinkable pain and suffering without so much as a second though and with no remorse is terrifying.
I was quite disturbed by this film. Not only by the horror of countless people being systematically killed, but the fact that they were sent in by their own kind. The part that made the biggest impression on me was that the jews were pushing their own people, sometimes friends and families into the ovens and gas chambers.
I agree with Nick, this film was really disturbing. I really didn't want the two men to die who found the young girl and I especially wanted her to live. One part that really stood out to me was when the man who found the girl was speaking to her and told her the story about the man who had to push his family into the ovens.
I thought this film did a good job at showing all the horrors the people had to through at the camps. I couldn’t believe what the Nazis could do to another human being. They truly have no conscience for their actors or a one bit of remorse.
I agree with annie, this movie was distrubing. I have no idea what i would have done if i was one of the jews who was kept alive. Whenthey talked about an old man losing his wife daughter and nephew all in one day. It's terrible. I wouldn't want to live on through an experiance like that. Having to throw fellow jews into an oven. Clean up there mess of blood and corpses, and lieing to them before they went into the gas chambers. It's all to evil.
I found this movie to very sad but also very powerful. It did a great job at showing what the Jews were forced to go through, and how they lived on a day to day basis, where at any time, anyone could be killed. This film also did a good job to show that the Jews did not just sit back, but instead did try to when they had an opportunity, to revolt.
15 comments:
I thought the film was very creepy and disturbing. I still have trouble beleiveing that this actually happened, seems more like a horror film to me!! I cant imagine the trauma and horror the Jews had to face.
I'll Always remember the ovens as being more horror exposing then Hell. That place is Hell. Mindless people carry out the unthinkable. Sadly I think the girl ran off to get shot intentionally because she saw first hand the amount of life taken from beings that she herself knew she would have to live with, therefore she gave the Nazi's excuse to shoot her after maraculously surviving the gas chamber
I thought this was a disturbing film. I couldn't believe the Jews were throwing their own people into the ovens. Another scene that left an impression on me was at the end, when they layed the men down on the grown and executed them one by one.
The film we watched this week showed how the Jewish race was treated in the camps. It was interesting to see the Jewish people that turned on their own people in order to keep themselves alive while they worked alongside the Nazi's. I imagined myself as one of the Jewish peoples who were sent...Just knowing you have to work so hard and your end result will be death is hard to comprehend. These people knew a revolt would give the Nazi's exactly what they wanted, but I give them credit for trying
I was absent and did not view this film.
I think that this is one of the most powerful films we have seen so far because it showed what really happened in the camps and showed what some Jewish people had to or chose to do while there. At first it was shocking to see what they were doing to other Jewish people but it was clear that they were only doing it to live. I found the ending very sad especially when the girl was runnign away and was killed. I thought that what the Jewish workers tried to do was very barve and the fact that they werea ble to destroy nearly half of the ovens was amazing.
I agree with Sarah that this was one of the most powerful films that we have watched all year. I had always believed that the Nazis did all of the dirty work. The fact that they had Jewish people convincing other Jewish people that everything would be alright was much more disturbing. As the ending rebellion began, I believed that the Jewish people could survive. This belief was crushed as I witnessed the final scene where even the girl was shot.
I though that this was one of the hardest movies and most powerful movie i have seen. I just can't beleive that a group of people felt as though they could do what they did too the Jews. However, i was very happy when I saw the Jews fight back and caused the uprising it just goes to show that even though at any moment you could have been killed, it didnt stop them from giveing it an attempt knowing full well they would be killed either during the process or after.
This film is sad, yet accurate statement abou the atrocitites that took place within the death camps during the nazzi regime. The horrors that took place within are barely seen though: it is impossible to relive and to try and teach another person what happened. I agree with Matt- Auschwitz was hell. The idea that people would willing submit others to unthinkable pain and suffering without so much as a second though and with no remorse is terrifying.
I was quite disturbed by this film. Not only by the horror of countless people being systematically killed, but the fact that they were sent in by their own kind. The part that made the biggest impression on me was that the jews were pushing their own people, sometimes friends and families into the ovens and gas chambers.
I agree with Nick, this film was really disturbing. I really didn't want the two men to die who found the young girl and I especially wanted her to live. One part that really stood out to me was when the man who found the girl was speaking to her and told her the story about the man who had to push his family into the ovens.
I thought this film did a good job at showing all the horrors the people had to through at the camps. I couldn’t believe what the Nazis could do to another human being. They truly have no conscience for their actors or a one bit of remorse.
I was not in class for this movie.
I agree with annie, this movie was distrubing. I have no idea what i would have done if i was one of the jews who was kept alive. Whenthey talked about an old man losing his wife daughter and nephew all in one day. It's terrible. I wouldn't want to live on through an experiance like that. Having to throw fellow jews into an oven. Clean up there mess of blood and corpses, and lieing to them before they went into the gas chambers. It's all to evil.
I found this movie to very sad but also very powerful. It did a great job at showing what the Jews were forced to go through, and how they lived on a day to day basis, where at any time, anyone could be killed. This film also did a good job to show that the Jews did not just sit back, but instead did try to when they had an opportunity, to revolt.
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