Sarcastic

The film, Night and Fog is almost making fun of Triumph of the Will, or at least calling it to attention. While Triumph of the Will creates this beautiful imagery and scene of Germany, Night and Fog parallels it with similar images of German countrysides, but then shows that even the most beautiful and innocent things can lead to disaster and massacre. Resnais intentionally juxtaposes beauty and disaster immensely in the film. The soundtrack really made me nauseous while the image was focusing in on these bulldozers cramming bodies of skin and bone into mass graves. I will indeed never forget the film because of that. I've never been so disgusted.  This is undoubtedly the objective Resnais wanted to accomplish. If he were to put a typical horror soundtrack over the images, we wouldn't think twice, but he wanted to emphasize that Nazis and a good portion of the Germans actually wanted this and thought it was the right and beautiful thing to do. Night and Fog, to me, was the sarcastic version of Triumph of the Will.