Night and Fog is a powerful, personal statement about the banality of evil in our time. Brutally graphic, Resnais' artistic depiction of life and death in a Nazi extermination camp combines ghostly scenes of the abandoned camp in the 1950s with Nazi and Allied stock footage and stills.
The juxtaposition between past and present is seen in the stark contrast between the more contemporary color sequences and the black and white historical footage. The film concludes with a subtle accusation against all who view the remaining evidence today and assume the story to be a closed book.
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