A Film Unfinished.

            While watching “A Film Unfinished” I found it extremely hard to watch.  This video, or should I say documentary, was shot by the infamous Nazi’s in May of 1942 in the Warsaw ghetto.  This film was never found entirely, but the footage that they have, they put together to make this video.  Because not all of the video footage was found, some of the scenes were set up and they had staged actors to play the role of the Jews.  The video, remind you that is filmed by the Nazi’s, was supposed to show the life of the Jews after they were taken from Germany.  It showed the daily life and living conditions after being rounded up and taken, but like I said they hired actors, so some of the scenes were to over dramatized.  The Nazi’s wanted to hide any sign of torture of the Jews, so they went to different lengths to cover how the Jews actually lived. 

            In the video film makers had multiple survivors sit in a theater and watch the horrible real-life documentary made by the Nazi’s.  The heartbroken survivors were in complete disbelief of how the Nazi’s portrayed how the Jews were treated and how the conditions of the ghettos were.  The survivors couldn’t believe what they were saying and how they showed life as a luxury. This was so not the case for any of the Jews, because as most of us know, life for the Jews was not an easy one.  Jews were to live in one bedroom apartment with multiple families and barely any food to eat.  Later in the video is when the rawness of the horror comes too in the Warsaw ghetto life.  Then pictures of the innocent dead bodies, garbage and the sadness upon men’s faces flash upon the screen and for me, that’s what I take away from this video, the sadness that these innocent lives had to face and the life they had live behind because.  The rawness of the footage is terrifying and heartbreaking for anyone to watch.  It shows the way the Nazi’s wanted people to view life and how life really was. (359)