“With our sincere gaze we survey these ruins, as if the old monster lay crushed forever beneath the rubble. We pretend to take up hope again as the image recedes into the past, as if we were cured once and for all of the scourge of the camps.” — Alain Resnais, Night and Fog, 1956
A tool like cinema, our closest approximation to recreating humanity in all…
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