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Used to watch loads of movies. Now? Not so much.
Brutal, but important. I feel like, as much as 20 Days In Mariupol is about the siege of the Ukraine's bridge to the Crimea, it's also a documentary about the Associated Press... by the Associated Press. Don't get me wrong, as a former journalist, AP are enormously respected and appreciated, but there is just something that doesn't sit right with me about making yourself part of the story here, narratively speaking. The narration also adds much context but the delivery…
I would take a wild stab in the dark to guess that watching this on a phone on a commuter train might not have been the intended medium for this documentary about the ultimately-false ballistic missile alert Hawaiian residents received. Seems like it was recorded via Zoom (maybe a project in lockdown?) and animated for VR.
As others have said, would it have worked better if it were re-edited to an audio-only format? Perhaps. But the stories were no less…
I kind of thought it would be a mindless action film where Sly goes around killing the bad guys in the jungle with his machine gun and that's about it. Like Predator, I guess, just without the Predator.
I was wrong. It's excellent. I found it very entertaining, and also quite sad. Sure, Rambo is this bad-ass, super elite soldier who can kill a man practically by looking at him, but I never realised there was a subtext quite so…
Amazing. Thought the train was going to come right out of the screen at me. Loses points for not being in HD.