Most recent public comments by Annie Paul https://nowcomment.com/users/12964 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339897 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339897 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:05 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339895 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339895 I think that the film was good, and it was about the impact that a simple mistake can do. Most people underestimate the small mindless things they do, and this movie sheds light on it. It adds the family aspect of it on order to elicit emotion from the viewers. I think he also chose this particular way of film because he wanted to show the daughter of victim as well as the texter come together in order to create this film. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:05 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339888 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339888 I think that because the film was so short makes it easier to just focus on the impact it made. Also, the fact that Werner Herzog is a very famous, well-known filmmaker, there was not much to fix, since it's easy to assume he knows what he's doing. However, i would like to have seen some criticism on how the film was made, if there were any. Fri, 15 May 2015 11:12:59 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339887 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339887 It is getting much harder and harder to avoid being so attached to this tech gear, becasue not only is it so innovative, it is also built in to our society as something most people need. It does make me wonder if these campaigns will have any long term affects Sat, 16 May 2015 00:03:01 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339886 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339886 People become so detached and it gets dangerous how unaware people can be. Fri, 15 May 2015 11:03:06 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339885 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339885 I think in addition to the invincibility complex, people just think that something as simple as sending a quick text couldn't possibly do something so drastic and change their lives. Its more so the "It'll take a quick second, no harm" rather than thinking they are invincible. Fri, 15 May 2015 11:01:35 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339884 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30609?scroll_to=339884 There are other things to blame accident like this than on texting. The first accident I have ever been in was from taking my eyes off the road during traffic to switch radio stations. Everyone ridiculed me because they thought i was texting and driving. A friend of mine was just trying to adjust her side mirrors while driving and rear ended someone. Campaigns should remind people that taking your eyes off the road for any reason whatsoever can be harmful and dangerous. Yes, texting does contribute to most cases especially nowadays in this digital society, but people have many reasons to take their eyes off the road and think its okay if they are not texting. They should be reminded that it is not Fri, 15 May 2015 11:47:34 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338904 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338904 I've been working at Starbucks for 3 years, and I have gained my fair share of weight just off of all the milk based drinks and bakery treats. It's no Mcdonald's but its not necessarily better. I only work 2 days a week now and the other 5 days I use to try and lose some chunk that I gained from full time. People working in the food industry in general would give a great perspective for another documentary. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:04 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338903 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338903 To start, a personal story. This film was a personal story, but it influenced many people to educate themselves. Its a domino effect of how people react to a personal story that is substantial enough to make them want to be educated. Once people want the information, then it is given to them, like when Mcdonalds started displaying the calorie count on every menu item. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:03 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338901 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338901 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:03 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338900 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338900 It reveals personal information about himself like the amount of weight he has lost, and it allows the audience to have emotions for him, which is unusual for a reviewer to do for himself, since his job is just to talk about someone else's film. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:04 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338899 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338899 Ebert just gives off information about what goes on n the film. I feel it would feel less of a summary if he just refered to some parts instead of explain the plot in a few paragraphs Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:05 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338896 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338896 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:04 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338895 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338895 This is one of those documentaries where since the content is about a man's day to day life, technique is less noticed because everyone is involved with the story and what will happen to the man in his life while consuming something people are so familiar with. I think Ebert recognizes that, so he decides to focus on the content rather than technique Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:04 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338316 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338316 They are lying and cheating, but making ends meet by doing just that. People make history by doing something creative, interesting, different, and being smart about it. Fri, 01 May 2015 14:06:22 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338269 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338269 Welles' way of tricking is open and conniving, so by contradicting himself, the reviewer allows himself a few moments to bask in the humor of having people guess at what he is trying to say, like an audience would guess at what a magician is trying to do. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:01 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338268 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338268 Like an annoyingly playful friend who never gives a straight answer, it is very easy to be seen as smarter or much more deceiving, because he lets everyone know that he is a trickster, so they will constantly be on there guard about what he is doing. In a way, this allows him to trick them in a different route than what they thought he would do. Reverse psychology Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:00 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338267 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338267 He doesn't give much of anything away. Almost everything he says is preceded by a statement that contradicts it, or questions it. That very nature of explaining is a hint to how he is able to trick people so easily. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:00 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338266 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338266 If he is accountable for everything, it means that he did not succeed in his deception and trickery. I think most of his trickery comprises of keeping people focused on other people and their lies as opposed ti his. However, If he confesses, he saves face, and people still respect him enough to claim his work as art. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:00 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336640 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336640 Ironically, the promised land is a land that opposing sides of the argument agree is beneficial to their own people. The religious factor is that both groups of people believe the land is only meant for them, therefore they war. However, they both believe the same thing, and are fighting due to pride. The Promise Land insinuates that the land is promised to all. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:58 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336638 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336638 It means you are able to go beyond opposing sides of an argument, creating an entirely new side while resisting an attraction to a specific one. In this case, "does not advance a polemic so much as it dramatizes opposing points of views" explains that Sontag was able to express both sides of a debate enough where the audience feels more than sufficient to create their own explanations and opinions given what she provided. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:58 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336635 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336635 The lack of voice allows the audience to grab what they need from the film and interpret it into their own opinions. It leaves unlimited space for inferences. Sometimes, when a narrator has a strong presence in a film, it tells too much of the story, the audience starts to rely on it, and it becomes easier to miss key moments in the film because we think the story is being told to us. Without a narrator, Sontag allows people to see what she saw Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:57 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336634 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336634 When people hear words like that, they have a clear idea of what is to be expected. If they get something else otherwise, then instead of embracing the art, they ridicule the lack of understanding of the concept of "documentary'. Sontag wanted to avoid that, so she gave her pieces a broader name "literary analogues" that gave her much more creative room without misleading the audience. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:57 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336633 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336633 Before Lim goes into reviewing the film, he goes into a brief review of Sontag's life and career so that the audience may get a clear idea of perhaps why she does what she does in her films. Lim also wants to establish that maybe he was confused about some things in the film, and this brief synopsis about her life cleared up some questions he had, so he wanted those questions to be answered for us before we get a chance to ask them. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:57 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330794 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330794 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:50 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330793 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330793 I think that when it says "Sylvia will best Hughes at his own game", this determination of hers was provoked by what Porter said. Therefore, it is important to cite Porter's words because it insinuates that it had a hand in Plath's moves as a poet. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:50 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330792 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330792 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:50 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330790 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330790 There needs to be a proper balance in background for a narration. If there is too much, it becomes much easier to stray away from the plot and from the focus. If there is too little, it becomes vague and hard to make relateable. There is good amount here because it briefly summarizes what they become to one another without making them a plot. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:49 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330786 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330786 I think that this sentence "She wanted more than words could give her" is just as important to foreshadowing her death if not more important than the persuasion. It shows that although she used words for her expression and her health to try to fight off her demons, in the end it was never enough. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:49 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330784 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330784 The flashback could also be the scene that would be going through Sylvia's head as she imagines them meeting Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:49 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330783 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330783 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:49 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330782 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=330782 The quick mention of a previous meeting between the woman on the phone and Ted was all the reader needs in order to mold an assumption about what could be told later. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:49 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25280?scroll_to=326667 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25280?scroll_to=326667 it shows how perceptive she really is. She hears grown ups talking, and is always open to new experiences, new vocabulary, and has been very in tune with her intellect from her youth. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:45 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323530 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323530 Not to mention the irony of coming back home to the states and the first interaction there was the conversation about Maugham. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:41 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323529 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323529 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:41 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323528 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323528 The overall theme is very casual, easy going and personal. This fits in because it is also personal, the author notices something different and new in London and it brings him back to a moment in the past that relates to it somehow. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:41 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323527 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323527 The power of words is great. It can make people change their views about substantial topics. In this case, the author touched someone who owned a home that had such a greater meaning than they possibly knew. Just by reading this article, a series of events were able to happen afterwards. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:41 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323526 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323526 The salvation in a way, he kind of represents the saving grace. The stuck up attitude that an American would experience in London would be diluted with a character like Alvarez. He is likeable and reinforces a reason for Plath's loyalty. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:41 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323525 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323525 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:40 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323524 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323524 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:40 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323523 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323523 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:40 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323522 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323522 It is more comic relief set up to enhance the personality of the writer. When people talk about a certain look given to other certain people who have a reputation, there is an existing assumption of what that look is. The author here is giving permission for the readers imagination to run wild. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:40 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323521 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323521 In terms of following the rules of writing a biography, the writer must know them all to stay credible and accurate. A biography, I would imagine, is a difficult thing to write because you must be very careful about perspective, voice, and accuracy. Because the author has done this many times, it's easy for him to feel like a child when he is told to do something like follow a small rule, although any small rule broken and create a domino effect into larger rules broke. But he knows this already. Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:05:32 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323520 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323520 Because the author had a good experience with Al Alvarez, he makes it much easier for us to understand what made Plath close to him. Because we are reading what the writer is writing, it is important for the writer to include his own experiences so that he can also have a better understanding of his subject. "He greeted me with extraordinary warmth and a feeling of instant camaraderie" This also allows the reader to trust the writer more because we can see that the writer trusts this source based on this warming sentence. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:40 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323519 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323519 While writing this, the writer may have been on a roll and using "you" felt most natural to him. He is talking about a particular experience with himself where Plath is not directly involved, therefore he allows himself the room for comic relief. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:40 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323518 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323518 It sets the readers up for what they may already know, but on a more personal scale. If any reader has traveled out of the country, they will relate to any culture clash between themselves and the locals of the new city. In this case, I would say that Hughes' friends were pretty stuck up not to realize that Plath came from a different place where the standards are different, and the author differentiates by recognizing the different perspectives when he goes. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:39 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323516 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323516 Plath always loved the warmth and she also killed herself on one of the coldest days. Perhaps this is a metaphor; as she breaks through the confines of what poetry was, she also broke through her comfort zone to adjust. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:39 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323351 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323351 The author is recognizing the courage of Alvarez to publish Plath's poetry despite how little anyone knew of her back then, including himself. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:39 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323349 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323349 Being from New York makes someone not only very proud of their home, but also makes it much easier to notice the difference between that and other cities. The acknowledgement also shows the author getting a bit nostalgic for his very idiosyncratic home Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:39 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323348 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323348 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:38 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323347 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323347 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:38 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323346 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323346 Trademark Jennings is right, he had a reputation of going against the grain of most other films and adding art into every aspect of life. He would say that there is always a connection between manic activity and a joyous setting. There is always a balance when someone wants to find it. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:42 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323345 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323345 I think maybe it could also have foreshadowing capabilities that precede the civil rights movement later to come that would benefit women in the workplace? Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:42 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323344 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323344 By starting with mentioning how there will be sounds that people expect to hear during a wartime film, it allows people to remember not only the normal sounds that war brings, but also to remember that it was not all bloodshed everywhere. Despite the fact that people were dying and countries were fighting, there were still plenty of things to be happy about and enjoy during those times. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:42 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321728 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321728 If men knew how to find a place where they could escape the animalistics of losing control, or killing or dying, then maybe many people or parts of the world would be better off. Ishmael here finds solace and a reason to continue living just by finding a place to keep calm. He may want to advise all men to find the same since many men do not take those things too seriously. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:37 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321727 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321727 Similiar to the association with Ishmael, he wants people to draw a clear conclusion of what he is feeling, but also how he distinguishes from it. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:36 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321726 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321726 He wants people to understand his story better by associating him with a well-known figure in most peoples lives. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:36 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321724 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321724 I like that you said substitute for fulfillment. It reminds me that it's not only his substitute for doing bad things, but those bad things make him feel good and he knows that. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:35 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321723 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321723 It is his substitute for pistol and ball. It is he alternative to lashing out at the people in the streets because of the darkness he feels in his soul. It is his escape. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:36 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=317189 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=317189 Perhaps because creating the scene of the interview would make a bias in the readers mind, and it could pave a path for negative view on the biographer in some way? It is also not part of the story being told. The story is about the subject of the biography, not about what happened during the biographers' researching process. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:27 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316340 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316340 It also puts a pressure on the biographer, because if they are contacting family and friends of the subject, and they learn all sorts of information, they feel like they must be careful in the way they portray the subject. They are supplying the readers, and family, with memories of the subject that will now live forever. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:27 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316328 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316328 I think that, like most people who interview a lot of people, biographers always have a hope beforehand that the person or people will not only be nice, but also helpful and courteous. The fact that Jill and Michael were so much more than that were the blessing that he felt. It also made her death more sad, because this revelation about the authors attitude shows that he cherished her as more than just another interviewee. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:27 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316327 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316327 Being in the messy room, it would be hard to focus on anything but the extreme mess. In the new room with books as well as lovely furnishings, it gives this scene a more positive feel, and it switches the reader to focus on something else besides the messy room. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:27 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316326 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316326 It paints a picture for the reader. A biographer tends to focus on scenes and imagery, letting the reader take from it what they may. The mess described were only that of books and papers, and it could have correlated with the persons relationship with not only other people, but also with their life work. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:27 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316325 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316325 Being a biographer, you are automatically expected to be knowledgable about many pieces of work from different avenues of time and place. Stating "I wonder" gives the wonderment a sort of rarity and valuable factor. If the writer has to wonder about a form of publication existing, that would mean whatever does exist gets more value because it was not as well known as another. This is my opinion, what I usually think when I see writers using that phrase. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:27 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316322 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316322 Being able to be as clearly objective about certain matters gives more credibility to the biographer. I agree with Hayley, the biographers interactions with the subjects' acquaintances are crucial, because that can be the deciding factor when a reader is trying to figure out if they like a character or not. If there is an unbias towards sources of information, then the reader is at a greater liberty to perceive what they want. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:26 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316308 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316308 Every writer has a voice. Readers have the power to identify pieces of a writers personality by dissecting their writing. This is also true of biographers. With all of the information that they would have to learn about the subject, the subject becomes sort of at mercy to the voice and style of the writer. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:26 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316305 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30636?scroll_to=316305 Narratives usually have a voice. If a biography has a certain voice, then it can possibly skew the perceptions from raw records of his life. Things that have been said by him or memories of him portrayed in a narrative biography will not have the same raw affect as something that he says himself in an interview. By relying soley on recorded interviews and memories, he is making way for a new narrative to be interpreted. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:29 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315863 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315863 i do think it is always to escape. It doesn't necessarily mean escaping from a bad reality. Stephen King also said that people enjoy sick horror films because it pleases a part of their subconscious that society teaches us to extinguish, or at least conceal. When people go see movies, it is because they are interested in someone else's idea of an alternate reality, thus momentarily escaping their own. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:25 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30619?scroll_to=315300 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30619?scroll_to=315300 Egdon is the most invincible of nature..as as it would be called that at all. I like the following sentence where it describes the surfaces to be neither so steep nor so flat that it would be destroyed. Of all the imperfection that civilization has (since the fact that civilizations drastically changes throughout the centuries is reason enough to believe that it is far from perfect), Egdon has the perfection to remain what it is, and completely, perfectly intact. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:22 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315288 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315288 "What you do after your frames that make it cinema" conveys the message that good cinema has the power to change people's live whether in a minuscule way, or in a revolutionary way. In this case, it was the starting point to films being made the way this one was, at least in terms of ASL, and anyone could take messages sent in any film and translate that into their own lives. This is why people enjoy cinema in the first place, to escape their own problems and to emerge in the wanderlust of others. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:25 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315282 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315282 Perhaps he does not consider him a character because he does not need any direction, and was not trying to portray anyone other than himself doing his only job, as a cameraman filming a city that he is a citizen of. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:21 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315280 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315280 The organizing pattern of the shots are basically a consistent, and relevant flow of events happening within the film. It is used to show the gradual rise of events into the climax down to the end of the film, which portrayed how the film came to look at the end. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:21 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315278 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315278 Jump cuts can also be used for showing a reaction of someone whilst another person is talking. Or perhaps to show something going on in one place while a dialogue is happening in another Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:21 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315274 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315274 People were not used to seeing a change such as this one. It does him well to ask the question in the beginning along with the statement comparing the past ASL fact with the modern movie, because it shows just how much people have changed after a few years, regardless of how reluctant we were to change in the first place. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:21 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315267 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315267 A stage has the limits of a single place, so the scenes and background had to look ambiguous enough, or rather versatile enough to change throughout the play, or have the characters interact in ways that clearly changes the scenes for them. In films, you have the luxury and liberty to change any scene, and express exactly what you want to make the audience feel without having to use dialogue, and it forces an artist to think more creatively about how to do this. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:21 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=312670 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=312670 Despite the modern day requirements to be listed as sophisticated, this film thrives on being authentic, which is not something that a fancy, digitally enhanced film can say. He says that what shines through is the humanity and optimism of the inuit, something like that cannot easily be copied by hired actors. The authenticity of nature's reaction is a larger influence in documentary films than regular acting. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:15 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=312668 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=312668 When he uses the word real in terms of describing documentary film making, or just Flaherty's way of film making, he means that despite whatever is directed behind the camera, the footage caught is as natural as any documentary can get. He clearly doesn't care too much for technicalities such as who is casted as what family members, as long as what is happening in front of the camera is really happening, which in this case it is. This is also why he reinforces this idea by ending the paragraph with the fact that the seal was indeed at the end of that line, because that is the reality we should pay attention to. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:43 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=312666 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=312666 By just talking about the seal, he is giving an example of the way the film was shot, and also the critiques about it. He soon after talks about how some people couldn't believe his credibility because there were some fabricated details. Starting off with the seal scene, he gives way for questions that are to be answered in the following paragraphs. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:15 -0500