Video testimonies are very different from written testimonies. When watching the videos, I saw the expressions and feeling run across their face as they told their story of being in camps. That is a big difference between video and written. You are allowed to see the expressions of the suppressed people. They're voices change as they get to different parts of the stories and you can tell them reliving it but they really want to tell what it was like living under those conditions and thinking you were going to die at the hands of fellow human beings.
videos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ges-Od4tR0I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgyKx37D2j4&feature=relmfu
I completely agree. The testimonies are agonizing to watch for me because of the hardships (which is an understatement) that they had to face is imprinted on their expressions and has stained their voices.
ReplyDeleteI must be the oddball out, because I don't really agree. Maybe it was due to the fact that all the videos hulu gave me were FAKE looking and the "victims" looked as thought they were acting the whole time. Good post LeeAsh. <3
ReplyDeleteI agree wholeheartedly. Watching the videos are heart wrenching, and to have to see their faces as their mind is transported back to the camps is horrible.
ReplyDeleteYou and I are definitely on the same page on this.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that instead of just reading the stories, we're hearing them and seeing the emotions running across their faces. It's crazy.