Monday, June 16, 2008
creating awareness( one bullet too many)
The documentry in my opinion did a good job in creating an impact on me.That impact in turn enlightened me not just as a journalist but as a normal human being. They were powerful and very dramatic. The scenes of baby Asia in the hospital and the scenes of her house at the reserve, the graffetti on the walls did manage to pull out my attention. Mark Kelly has unique skills in writing and interviweing, the way he makes people talk, is his trade mark. He makes his interviewee talk the way he wants and can leave him or her hold his/her breath.The same way I get the feeling of involvement from the beginning and keeps my breath in for the next scene. It's as if I'm right there. Amazing! This documentry showed me the conditions of a reserve which I, as a Torontonian didn't know exist. We had only heard about it or read about it, but not seen it, it was actually seeing a native reserve and its conditions. It definitely focuses on the gang war and violence in the reserves, the lawlessness,natives' hatred towards the police and authority and their lack of concern towards their own community. The natives sufferring from self created poverty and gang violence which Mark thinks would eventually be over some day.
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