COMPARISON OF DOCUMENTRY STYLE FILMS TO EARLIER FICTIONAL NARRATIVE FILMS

The major difference between the films we have watched are the documentary films shows more scenes of the pains that people went through and how they were maltreated and killed as if there were not humans at all. Whiles the fictional films we saw were basically on what Germans had to deal with that lead to lot problems like the dada and the Nazism.

Night and fog, is a French film produced in 1955 and the script was written by Jean Cayrol a concentration camp survivor. It shows more scenes of the Holocaust, it shows the cruelty that humans had to go through in the hands of the Nazis. Their living conditions was very bad, they had to go to detention camps where people were killed they never saw day nor night it was always darkness for them. This proves how inhuman they could be to have being treating people like that. As noted it is a very disturbing film and a wicked treatment at that.

Triumph of the will is a film that showed scenes of encouragement to the people of Germany so they will not feel the after mart of the world war so as to lower their spirits. But rather it was made to encourage them that even after everything they could still make it again and even come out as the best of the best.

The film “The blue angle talks more the attitudes and the sexual desires of the people. It was trying to bring into light the poor moral aspects of the people. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari shows scenes of disorder in societies and in what bad state the country was. The film “M”, displayed more scenes of murder which in effect is not in a normal place where children were kidnapped and killed and this is something that is really prevailing in our communities today.

Comparing the two, the first movies that we saw mostly explained to us some of the societal changes and the things that are actually happening today in our world. But the later, are scenes of the real things that was going on or happened in the Germany long ago and was documented. These acts were very inhumane and we pray we do not go back to a world like this again.