Anne Frank: The Whole Story

I bought the book, The Diary of a Young Girl.

In order to get the whole outline of the diary and Anne’s daily life, I watch the film about her, Anne Frank: the Whole Story. Before I watch the film, I was always confused by the people in the diary. After watching it, I can clearly recognize them. In my notion, vision is a lot more shocking than words because its impact is direct and immediate. The scene that shocked me most happened at the time when Anne was sent to the concentration camp. Germans gave them nothing to eat and treated them like animals; they stripped off all Jews’ clothes, making them naked, and then tattooed the number on their body. What’s more mortified was women’s hair was all cruelly cut down like weeds. After the mayhem had all done, Jews were sent to obsolete camp.

Harsh environment leads to the emersion of depraved humanity. In order to live, people can do everything without caring about they are the same race. Since the wind was bitter, they needed a lot of clothes. Where were the clothes from? the dead. Greed, theft, selfish, and the dark side of humanity all come into sight. At that time, Anne felt nothing but hopeless. She held Margot’s cold body in arms, crying mournfully; the masses around them started to take off Margot’s clothes. Though it is just a movie, it is so real that I feel sick and even can't breathe.

I think movie is a great assist of words. There’s many details can’t be seen in the movie; then Anne’s diary can make it up. Sometimes when words in the diary are too abstract, vision of the movie make them real and vivid.

▲Hannah Taylor-Gordon, an excellent young actress




Reference: Learning Log 1~15