I am hopeful you are able to join the course blog easily. I will forward notes about the class here as well as present topics for discussion. You should, however, strike new critical territory for others to read/discuss.
I've never written in a blog before. Not quite sure if I'm supposed to reply like I'm doing now or start a new thread somehow. I want to first put my bids in for the best films of the summer since I couldn't remember any in class: The Brothers Bloom, Hangover, and Moon. All were really great in very different ways: Bloom with excellent cinematography and symbolism, Hangover was just awesome, and Moon had an intriguing story that developed well even in a very confined setting. I also want to say that the documentary we watched today (Pictures) wasn't nearly as creepy as I thought it would be. I thought it was great how the filmmakers combined the photographer's old footage with more recently filmed encounters with the same Appalachian folk. I felt in doing so, the filmmakers stirred up a lot more empathy, showing how poor the families conditions are and that almost nothing has changed for the same families for over ten years. I also liked that there weren't as many cuts to one-on-one interviews as I've seen in other documentaries. It seemed instead that there was more voiceover, more people talking at once in a scene, and something was constantly happening on the screen. The effect of this is again a stronger connection to the film. And although the filmmakers did put a few scenes in of people disliking the photographer's work, I thought it was obvious that the filmmakers were a bit one sided due to the lack of those particular interviews. Oh, and the mentally disabled woman was simply beautiful. The camera caught some amazing stuff with her and her brother. Any one have more and greater thoughts?
I've never written in a blog before. Not quite sure if I'm supposed to reply like I'm doing now or start a new thread somehow. I want to first put my bids in for the best films of the summer since I couldn't remember any in class: The Brothers Bloom, Hangover, and Moon. All were really great in very different ways: Bloom with excellent cinematography and symbolism, Hangover was just awesome, and Moon had an intriguing story that developed well even in a very confined setting. I also want to say that the documentary we watched today (Pictures) wasn't nearly as creepy as I thought it would be. I thought it was great how the filmmakers combined the photographer's old footage with more recently filmed encounters with the same Appalachian folk. I felt in doing so, the filmmakers stirred up a lot more empathy, showing how poor the families conditions are and that almost nothing has changed for the same families for over ten years. I also liked that there weren't as many cuts to one-on-one interviews as I've seen in other documentaries. It seemed instead that there was more voiceover, more people talking at once in a scene, and something was constantly happening on the screen. The effect of this is again a stronger connection to the film. And although the filmmakers did put a few scenes in of people disliking the photographer's work, I thought it was obvious that the filmmakers were a bit one sided due to the lack of those particular interviews. Oh, and the mentally disabled woman was simply beautiful. The camera caught some amazing stuff with her and her brother. Any one have more and greater thoughts?
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