The beauty of documentaries, Reivew on Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

In fact, I watch very few documentaries. The main reason is that I prefer to watch stories or movies with plots. When I was a child, watching documentaries like dinosaurs, animals, etc. is at best just for fun. But after watching these zeitgeist films, I found that documentaries also have their unique beauty. We all know expository texts and narrative texts, two identical expressions on the same carrier. I think documentaries are like expository texts. Maybe they have no stories and no protagonists, maybe just a few theories, or maybe just a few video clips, but I find that its excellence is that it can still look good without these factors. I think a good documentary must first have a theme, and if it talks about it, it must revolve around this theme. Secondly, I think there must be layers and logic. For example, there are different layers in this movie, but these different layers revolve around this common theme. Finally, it is also very important that a good documentary must have a good conclusion, like the conclusion given by this film is very clear, because this conclusion must be the most prominent sentence in the center of the film. To sum up, I think as long as these are done well, and as long as the director can shoot well, then this must be a good documentary.

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