About Me: Avid movie goer. See 2-3 films in theaters a week.
I consider myself to be a fairly sophisticated person. I read lots of books on a variety of diverse subjects. Occasionally I pick up a copy of the Economist or US News. Yet in reality I know very little about the world around me first hand.
This documentary does a good job in explaining how the control and manipulation of information sources can alter perception. How a even video sequence can be presented to have two or more totally different meanings. I wouldn't try to watch this documentary to get an accurate idea of what really happened as its fairly obvious that the producers of this documentary have a message they are trying to push. But ironically, the fact that this documentary is fairly obviously biased shows how clearly the medium can alter even a sophisticated viewers perception of reality. So go watch it but remember that what you are seeing almost certainly isn't reality.
Cast: Non-actors. They seemed pretty real.
Cinematography: Poor, but understandably so. Adds to the 'realism'.
Story/Plot: Good tension. I was interested all the way through.
Editing/Direction: Pretty good. Pace could have been a bit quicker but I wasn't ever really bored.
Overall Rating: 7/10
I consider myself to be a fairly sophisticated person. I read lots of books on a variety of diverse subjects. Occasionally I pick up a copy of the Economist or US News. Yet in reality I know very little about the world around me first hand.
This documentary does a good job in explaining how the control and manipulation of information sources can alter perception. How a even video sequence can be presented to have two or more totally different meanings. I wouldn't try to watch this documentary to get an accurate idea of what really happened as its fairly obvious that the producers of this documentary have a message they are trying to push. But ironically, the fact that this documentary is fairly obviously biased shows how clearly the medium can alter even a sophisticated viewers perception of reality. So go watch it but remember that what you are seeing almost certainly isn't reality.
Cast: Non-actors. They seemed pretty real.
Cinematography: Poor, but understandably so. Adds to the 'realism'.
Story/Plot: Good tension. I was interested all the way through.
Editing/Direction: Pretty good. Pace could have been a bit quicker but I wasn't ever really bored.
Overall Rating: 7/10