Last night I watched a documentary I had recorded previously on HBO: "Night Will Fall". It is a documentary of the filming of the macabre consequences after the Holocaust by Alfred Hitchcock (and Billy Wilder secondarily). It is positively harrowing. As a film, it isn't well put together. Like another reviewer here, I couldn't rate the film itself higher because I just didn't think it was assembled very well.
It has a sub-text in which the British and Americans vie over the making of the actual documentary which isn't told very well. It's scattered, superficial, and in the long-run rather pointless. But as for its major subject matter, the extermination of so many men, women, and children, it is relentless. It is brutally blunt, and in that there's a point: how the hell can you put together images of such atrocities artistically? You can only record (document) the horror. I cannot get those images out of my head.
It has a sub-text in which the British and Americans vie over the making of the actual documentary which isn't told very well. It's scattered, superficial, and in the long-run rather pointless. But as for its major subject matter, the extermination of so many men, women, and children, it is relentless. It is brutally blunt, and in that there's a point: how the hell can you put together images of such atrocities artistically? You can only record (document) the horror. I cannot get those images out of my head.