Review on "Genocide"

The film Genocide is a very moving but gruesome telling of the horrors of the Holocaust. It presents many graphic images and detailed stories of events that took place in concentration camp, and this made the film even more emotional. The information given were surprising even after studying the Holocaust and seeing other films or reading other books, meaning that there are still many things to learn about this horrible event. The balance of footage and photographs used in a combination help set up the emotion wanted from the viewer and gave the right information in a correct manner. Even the personal information given through the letters read helps give insight to the lives of those who went through the Holocaust. This film gives not only information from multiple different sources but gives it in a way that the viewer can feel the emotions of what is happening and the viewer can see the courage from the people in the film, like when they sang in Hebrew “we will outlive you”. The emotions felt from watching this film helps open the eyes of the viewer, to help understand all that is being told about these events.

This film, Genocide, for me was a good, not done over the top, film about the Holocaust. I might have gotten emotional while watching but that was not the purpose of this film, to make someone feel sad about the Holocaust. The point of the film is to get you in the right state of mind to take in the information given to you and help you better understand what you are seeing and being told about. The information I gathered from this film from the letters to the first hand experience helped me better see what happen and understand so that I may learn from it and push for a better future. I appreciate this film in it giving me better insight to the Holocaust that was not or could not be given by other films or books.

Genocide, the film about the Holocaust, gave a great insight to this horrible event and this horrible event is what jump started the motion of human rights to the scale it is today. The Holocaust was a gruesome and terrible thing and it redefined the meaning of human rights. It eliminated boarders, races, gender, and much more from being separate issues to being one great issue of human rights, creating an international movement. The horrible things that happen open the eyes of the world and created the want for a better life for all humans. It striped boarders and united the world for a better cause, a better world. It is sad to say, but it is possible that if this event, the Holocaust, did not happen, that the drive for human rights would not have been as strong as it was. The World War itself pushed for the United Nations but the motion for human rights got a lot of momentum from the knowledge of the Holocaust. No one wants an event so horrible to happen again and many things have been put in place by the State members of the UN to prevent or punish if something were to happen again. This film helps give different, personal view to the Holocaust in hopes that the viewers will learn, understand, and push for a better future, to not let it happen again.