Documentary, just a little artistic sense of editing

Erwin 2022-04-19 09:02:43

I have always believed that documentaries, non-fictional ones, lack fictional and dramatic structures, and hardly have the narrative art of storytelling.

The essence of a documentary is a piece of old news (a form of news), a story from the past. Basically, it rarely mentions the shaping of characters, but is only a record of an event, and the record of an event often lacks dramatic brewing and fermentation. Still somewhat bland.

The story lacks a dramatic structure, and becomes a retelling of a past event, with at most a little sense of narrative or editing.

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  • Blaze 2022-03-24 09:03:19

    The viewing experience is very special and shocking. Not only the brutal presentation of the war, because of the use of the film of the year, the characters in it are very sensitive to the camera, they are always staring at you, and they are always smiling. This is especially heartbreaking. When I watched the biopic of the author of Winnie the Pooh that day, it also mentioned that the returning veterans of the First World War found that people were reluctant to talk about it. At the end of "The Lord of the Rings", Frodo and the others returned to the Shire, and no one was interested in the suffering they experienced. It's all post-war scars.

  • Elinore 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    This documentary commemorating the centenary of the First World War can be called an epic masterpiece. The black and white images that were sleeping in the Imperial Museum in London were awakened by modern technology. Peter Jackson used magic to make them "not getting old" again. If you are there, no matter how shocking the war movies are, they are not as touching as these real pictures. They do not have names, identities or backgrounds in the picture. They have become historical symbols in the scouring of the century-old wave. What they hear are their detailed descriptions of life on the battlefield, sentence after sentence, without giving the audience any time to breathe. , just like the battles and bombings they experienced, they didn't give them any time to breathe.

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They Shall Not Grow Old quotes

  • Soldier: [waving at camera] Hi, mum.

  • Soldier: You don't look, you see. You don't hear, you listen. You taste the top of your mouth. Your nose is filled with fumes and death. But the veneer of civilization has dropped away.