Sunday, October 5, 2014

Documentary review

Into The Abyss by Werner Herzog

A documentary looking into a crime case in a small town in Texas. The perpetrators who murdered multiple people just to steal a car are interviewed and so are the families of the victims, and people from the town. In my opinion, This was not a good movie. The creepy police footage was the most interesting part, and I think the creators of the film knew this because it was basically half of the movie. The people interviewed were often uninteresting or dull, and the man interviewing them often talked over them or egged them on emotionally, and that made me uncomfortable as a viewer. The movie dragged on and on and on and was hard to sit through, because everything moved so very slow.  Movies need to have contrast throughout the film or it becomes dreadfully boring. It is very hard to sit through an hour and a half of police footage narrated by an extremely foreign accent.