Steven Spielberg: The Use Of Diegetic Sound During The Holocaust

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Steven Spielberg used diegetic sound combined with shadowy lighting to show his audience the horrible events that went on during the Holocaust. The use of diegetic sound during the Exhumation Scene added to the emotion and emphasised the cruelness of the Liquidation of the Ghetto. One example of diegetic sound was the roaring of the fire, it not only created a mood, it also emphasised the idea of how many corpses were being burnt. The significance of the ashes blanketing the Plaszow camp affects us a lot, and makes me think about all the innocent Jewish people that did nothing wrong, or the Jewish children being brought up in a war and and in life threatening situations, the families that were split and terrorised, the horrible things the Jews

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