way to take a cool genre and transfer it to film so nicely. frustrating, exciting, high speed, and yet conscious of my occasional need to breathe.i loved this movie because of it's creative editing that gave it such a fast pace and high energy the entire time, while still clinging to the need to delve a little deeper into several characters.
if this movie had a concept it would probably be: "from every pair of eyes their is another story—another piece to the puzzle that is the history." (which, i might add, would be a great concept for a stage production as well...)
it begins from the vantage point of what would be one step closer than the average citizen encountering the media: the camera and reporting crew of the event. after we discover the event as we would in any normal situation—by the news stories—then they start the clock over and re-tell the same story from another character's "Vantage Point." i was impressed. the 24, LOST, and Memento-ish movie made for a mini-series style engaging story that felt all too real because of the editing and filming. it made me think of how the media transfers to the people and exercises the right to censorship and editing. there will never be a way for us to see all of the angles of an event. if i had to recreate the story of 9/11 it would only seem appropriate to tell it from every angle possible. telling the story as if every party involved was the protagonist of their own story—because they are.
i might bring this up in a class about editing and how we film what stories we want to tell. how can the stories be best represented? how else can we tell a story rather than the one story line in a linear form? or we could talk about how to write stories: how can we connect characters to each other or intertwine separate characters' stories into one?
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