Day Five, or How My Brain is Full of Confusion!

So...... somebody in Ruskaland allowed Dziga Vertov the right to make a movie. He decided that he was just going to film a whole bunch of random stuff with no idea of a plot line in his head. He then gives all the footage he films to his wife and tells her "make it make sense." The result is The Man With a Movie Camera. So one of the most important things for me in a movie is that the plot is good, or if not good, at least sensible. This movie is neither. It's a movie that shows you a metric ton of random footage and refuses to give you anything to try to make sense of it all other then a few lines of writing at the beginning of the film which might as well just say "The following movie makes no sense. Enjoy." The only way I can describe the way I felt watching this movie is like when your aunt shows you all the home videos she and Uncle Fred made during their Branson trip, but somehow the VCR eats the footage and plays the movies in a random order. That is how my brain felt.

I understand that this movie was trying very hard to be something experimental and unique. I know that this movie also wants to be groundbreaking. On those fronts I think it succeeds. I like art films, the stuff that isn't always mainstream, I really do. The problem is though, this movie just does have anything truly interesting for me to watch. The film uses interesting camera angles from time to time, and also shows some "odd" special effects. (Bartender, there is a cameraman in my drink) Overall though, this movie just does not have the things I am looking for in a good movie. Sadly not every experiment is a success.