Diamonds Of The Night Analysis

The Many Perspectives of the Holocaust The Holocaust affected maybe people of all different nations, religions, and political beliefs. There are many different perspectives on the Holocaust due to the great mass of people affected. But, one thing most people can agree on is that it was a tragic, inhumane and traumatic experience for those who lived through this injustice. The following films; A Film Unfinished by Yael Hersonski, The Last Stage by Wanda Jakubowska, and Diamonds of the Night by Jan Nemec, all offer different experiences in distinctive attempts to authentically capture the horrors of the Holocaust. A Film Unfinished tells its story and takes form as a documentary through the use of a Nazi Propaganda film, personal interviews with survivors, journal entries from survivors, and historical background info. The Last Stage attempts to represent this experience in a quasi-documentary style film, meaning it is based off the true events of Gerda Schneider’s time during the Holocaust, but the film is staged in recreation. The final movie, Diamonds of the Night recreates psychological experiences of the Holocaust, instead …show more content…
Instead of following a narrative of two characters and their escape from a transport train, it follows the psychological narrative of the escape. This film does what seems to be a very realistic expression of what goes through the mind of someone who is escaping from the horrors of the Holocaust. The film is only semi-linear because there are flashbacks, hallucinations, and flash forwards. As an audience member it is difficult to follow the story line, but that is what encourages the audience to focus on what Nemec wanted us to pay attention to, the psychological turmoil the boys were experiencing. It makes sense that the film is not linear because PTSD, or post traumatic stress disorder, collapses chronology and there is no linear narrative within a sufferer’s