To call today’s class depressing would be an understatement. Watching World of Glory was like watching Schindler’s List again, except World of Glory was able to capture all of the horror from Schindler’s List in just the first shot. Naked human beings, being loaded into a truck and taken to their deaths like animals, crying in utter horror.

I probably wasn’t as shocked as other students might have been, mainly because I have seen films and documentaries on the holocaust before. Regardless, I still hated every frame of that first shot. Another sad reminder I got from this short film was the fact that as a human race, in some countries, we still haven’t moved beyond what was shown in the film. I have heard stories of prison camps, where human beings are killed, and even worse, tortured for hours upon hours.

The ONE thing that I liked about the film was how in a very subtle way, through the scene in the church, it offers the hope of Christ as the solution for coming to terms with our past sins.

Despite the glimmer of hope, I’m glad that this is, according to Prof. Leeper, “the lowest point of the class this semester,” and now it’s behind us.

BenCrane