Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Times of Harvey Milk

We watched a small clip of this in class and from the small clip I wanted to cry. This was an older film, but it was still very moving. The accounts were honest and although there were many night shots in regards to the candlelight scene the riot scene, it was very well shot considering it was film.

My friend had been telling me to rent this for a long time before I had watched that scene and she wanted to watch Milk once it came out with me. I don’t know what it is about these very factual and socially charged documentaries but those are the one that seemed to be most inspiring . I related this documentary with another older doc called “Who Killed Vincent Chin” as this movie also takes various accounts of a murder as well as a very in depth description of the main character.

The way the b-roll, photographs, interviews and footage were all cut together just flowed so nicely together. The documentary makers didn’t even need to add dramatic music to make an individual seem like a criminal, the archival footage simply spoke for itself.

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