Problem
"Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship."
Elaborate a paper that analyzes and reviews a documentary film on a topic of your choice, using research that you will conduct on that topic to illuminate your review of the film. Address the following questions: does the film's style, voice, and approach support and echo its subject? How and why? If not, then how not? The paper will be posted to a discussion, and you may use images, hyperlinks, and clips. The topic should be one that you are genuinely interested in exploring, and it can be a topic that the film addresses directly, or it can be a topic related to the theory and history of documentary. For example, if you were to choose Glass (hypothetically, because you need to find a film that I haven't assigned), you could then research a topic covered in the film (different methods of manufacturing glass), or you could research poetic approaches to documentary. The topic must either be central to the film's subject matter or it must be clearly related to a topic in documentary theory and history.
Additional questions to consider, when reviewing the film, include the following:
o Do you now understand why the filmmakers represented ideas and issues in a particular way? If it is an expository/participatory/reflexive documentary, does your research provide insight as to why the filmmaker took that approach? In other words, what more do you see in the documentary, after researching this subject?