The Bang Bang Club

By Samara 2022-12-24 14:08:40

Photojournalist's Responsibilities

"The Gunshot Club" tells the stories of several war photojournalists, two of whom won the Pulitzer Prize, and a photo of a vulture and a little girl made the world know about the suffering in Africa. Eventually the reporter committed suicide, raising questions about his failure to save the little girl. This is the responsibility of reporters, whether saving people first or stealing the scene first, we only feel the taste of their success, but we don't understand the hardships they have to pay...

By Kasey 2022-12-18 05:39:39

Should compassion be the responsibility of war photographers?

I was so depressed after watching the movie, I didn't expect Kevin to choose suicide.

I suddenly thought of the question raised at the beginning of Susan Sontag's "On Photography" a while ago. She said in the book: "Photography is basically an act of non-intervention. Some unforgettable examples of contemporary photojournalism Striking images such as a Vietnamese monk reaching for a gasoline can and a Bangladeshi guerrilla stabbing a tied collaborator with a bayonet are so terrifying...

By Violet 2022-12-16 15:16:02

To the battlefield - my shot, my gun

When a reporter picks up a camera, he often has a question: Do you want to be a fly on the wall?

Whether to record reality purely with the lens like a fly, or to "participate" in reality for a better artistic effect. More importantly, when someone is injured, oppressed, and in need of help in reality, whether to step forward or stay behind the camera becomes a "survival or destruction" question.

The issue is particularly stressful for war correspondents. Because compared...

By Kelvin 2022-12-02 15:00:15

Heavy Pulitzer Prize - Tribute to all war correspondents

From 1990 to 1994, South Africa was in a bloody storm, with violent clashes between supporters of various political parties. The apartheid South African government secretly used the Zulu-dominated black nationalist party "Inkata Liberal Party" to fight against Mandela-led ANC by tricking and agitation. Thousands died.

The film tells the story of the "Gunshot Club" four field photojournalists (Greg, Ken, Joe, Kevin) risking their lives to visit the battlefield and the camp to record the...

By Erwin 2022-11-29 19:36:38

The idea is too big, the angle of view is too narrow.

The director's attitude is not firm enough, and he is always struggling between discussion and expression. The ambivalence that he can't make a sense of reality and can't play literary and artistic style makes the whole play seem a little absent-minded.
   The rhythm of the narrative is rhythmically pulled away by the incoherent editing, and the emotional tension is lost. Except for the realistic conflict scenes that can bring a certain visual impact, the whole film is basically scattered...

By Kasandra 2023-09-15 04:17:31

The story was a bit messy but that didn't stop me from getting a lot of tributes to the war correspondents killed in Libya and...

By Icie 2023-09-15 01:57:04

Another movie I like. That's how the classic timeless works are...

By Michele 2023-09-12 07:03:23

The war makes everything that is too simple and complicated vanish into thin air, leaving only a chaotic ruin on which war reporters have to seek and discover, so they inevitably have the same needs as warriors: courage and luck, passion and Forbearance, faith, madness, and, of course, comrades-in-arms. The legend and heaviness of the story itself ensure the shock and richness of the plot and ideology of the film, while the stability of the narrative enables it to be expressed flexibly and...

By Napoleon 2023-08-14 23:21:23

By the way, I thought Kevin Carter was the protagonist before watching this movie! But a bunch of manual Nikons in the film are really kind of...

By Kennith 2023-07-17 20:59:14

The photo of the little girl and the bald eagle should have been seen by many people, including the controversy caused at the time, but this is the first time to understand the relatively complete story behind it. "We always try to use our own values ​​to judge something outside our field of vision" is fatally...