Thursday, November 4, 2010

I was a big fan of the video we watched on Wednesday, I thought it was fantastically well made.  I enjoyed the beginning with the dogs running.  It definitely set the tone for the movie, the post apocalyptic feel, the destruction, even the danger a pack of wild dogs present.  It definitely grabs your interest right off the bat.

The color scheme the movie adopted was phenomenal, I really felt as though it captured and displayed emotions very well.  It definitely helped draw your eye to important parts or people talking.  I also liked how it changed to fairly normal colors when he switched to his interviews to kind of show that we are now back in the present day real world.  It made the movie easier to follow as well, which was nice.

The story in and of itself was a very good one as well.  I really enjoy hearing about the psychological effects of war and not just the Hollywood movie hero deal because real war, from everything I have been told and read, is more like this movie or Jarhead or Home of the Brave.  The true, or at least based on true events, stories are the best ones.  They show that soldiers are still just humans.

My one big complaint of the movie is this, I cannot stand subtitles!  I really feel that you can never get the full movie if there are subtitles because you have to focus on reading those the whole time and you cannot pay as much attention to the scenes and images of the movie and I think those are more important than any words.

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