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The Hurt Locker
knives:
Fair enough, tastes are unique and I definitely can't judge taste. Just found your phrasing of your criticism odd.
pilsner:
The point which we aren't saying explicitly, of course, is that The Hurt Locker was done in mock documentary style. Most documentaries are not plotted, at least not in any conventional way.
RallyMonkey:
What makes you feel it was done in a documentary style?
KvP:
"Documentary style" is the wrong term, I think. "Cinema verite" seems better, for this film at least. It is minimally stylized.
pilsner:
--- Quote from: RallyMonkey on 15 Jan 2010, 12:01 ---What makes you feel it was done in a documentary style?
--- End quote ---
Shaky handheld footage, reliance on environmental noise with relatively few musical cues (although there were some), relatively few crane shots, lots of zooming in and out often obstructing a view of the action, and the general sense that a series of events is being depicted rather than a story.
Perhaps calling it mock documentary is a little strong, but Bigelow clearly directed this mimicking the "embedded journalist" footage we've all seen and it was so convincing that right until the slo-mo explosion in the opening scene, I wasn't sure if I was watching fact or fiction.
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