Thursday, March 26, 2009

Film Lesson: Schindler's List

The movie "Schindler's List" is very good at showing what happend in the hollocaust. Some scenes were great and seemed so real. The ghettos, the actors, the camps everything very realistic. In the movie there were many powerfull scenes. I can't say there is just one that will stay with me there are many. The scene were they are liquidating the krakow ghettos was so sad they killed people like nothing, they made people come out of their homes, and they beat everyone they could.
Another scene that I wont forget is when they are doing the check up in the camps and the children are being taken away. When they start singing the song and to know that all those innocent kids were killed is awfull. When the kids were hiding and they had to hide in disgusting places. There are many more powerfull scenes.

Film Lesson: Night and Fog

Night and Fog is a very powerfull movie. It shows the camp Auchwitz and the living style of the Jews and the Nazis. Watching that movie made me so sad, its hard to believe that you can treat people that way and kill people like it's normal. The way the Nazis had them living, eating, and working was horrible.
The people in the camps were terribly skinny and sick, dead bodies everywhere. The pictures of the hair, heads, bodies, and belongings of these people were so unreal. The documentary definatly impacted me more than the hollywood version, I think "Schindler's List" was a great movie but the documentary is more real. In the movie everyone is healthy and normal but in "Night and Fog" it shows the reality of how sick and worn out these people really were.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Film Lesson-''Gandhi''

Gandhi helped his country gain independance from Great Britain by not using violence he believed in civil disobidience which means to disobey without using violence. Gandhis methods were very effective because the britians hit them and beat them and the Idians would not fight back, which made them angry. Gandhi made many marchs and protest, he was also put in jail many times but he continued to protest and encourage the Indians not to give up, another way he protested was by fasting. Gandhi refused to wear any of the clothes made by Great Britian so he made his own, he did not buy anything from the Britians and told his followers to do the same. I do not think Indias independance was all about Gandhi he just encouraged it and helped, the Indians would have gained independance sooner or later.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) And The Modernization Of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal went into power as the president of Turkey, he made many changes and reforms to Turkey. Mustafas political, social, legal, economic and cultural reforms modernized Turkey and made it more secular. In Mustafas legal reform he abolished religious laws and made the new civial code, penal code and business law. He's social reforms also helped to give his nation a new sensed of dignity equality and happiness

Friday, February 6, 2009