15-09-2011, 01:49 PM
Hi Ed,
since you asked for comments and since I started looking into that film I'd like to give some first thoughts.
First of all, it is a complex film, much more complex than it appears on first sight. It is far from perfect, technically, but it also is far from simple.
It employs a lot of techniques to associate contents with each other, which are not, on its face, associated.
I think that is the main message of the film, which you may feel is good or bad, depending on whether you happen to believe that all these things are associated or not. But it forces you to think about connections and associations, which may or may not be there. I don't think the film proves anything, except that a bunch of war criminals served in the bush administration, but we knew that. And, of course, that you cannot trust the media. We knew that, too, I hope.
Of course the film is designed to be as viral as possible, that is to reach as many people as possible and have an effect on them.
I think that as a film maker I would strive for the same goal, maybe with different means.
I cannot estimate how many hours of hard work have gone into finding some of the video clips in the film alone, some of which I had heard about but not consciously seen before. So, even if I have seen a lot of 911 material, I learned something from the film.
Ans I learned something about perception.
Of course the film and its author, Ryan Dawson, have been accused of being anti-semite and not everybody loves Ron Paul.
Of course there were copyright issues and there will be more of them. And of course there are endorsements of the film by people whose motives are less than pure.
As I said, its a complex film about a complex issue.
since you asked for comments and since I started looking into that film I'd like to give some first thoughts.
First of all, it is a complex film, much more complex than it appears on first sight. It is far from perfect, technically, but it also is far from simple.
It employs a lot of techniques to associate contents with each other, which are not, on its face, associated.
I think that is the main message of the film, which you may feel is good or bad, depending on whether you happen to believe that all these things are associated or not. But it forces you to think about connections and associations, which may or may not be there. I don't think the film proves anything, except that a bunch of war criminals served in the bush administration, but we knew that. And, of course, that you cannot trust the media. We knew that, too, I hope.
Of course the film is designed to be as viral as possible, that is to reach as many people as possible and have an effect on them.
I think that as a film maker I would strive for the same goal, maybe with different means.
I cannot estimate how many hours of hard work have gone into finding some of the video clips in the film alone, some of which I had heard about but not consciously seen before. So, even if I have seen a lot of 911 material, I learned something from the film.
Ans I learned something about perception.
Of course the film and its author, Ryan Dawson, have been accused of being anti-semite and not everybody loves Ron Paul.
Of course there were copyright issues and there will be more of them. And of course there are endorsements of the film by people whose motives are less than pure.
As I said, its a complex film about a complex issue.
The most relevant literature regarding what happened since September 11, 2001 is George Orwell's "1984".