May 17, 2011

Phantom Limb

This documentary illustrates a series of steps that takes the viewer on a trip through the grieving process. I thought it was interesting how the documentor never actually appeared or spoke in his film, but still presented himself as an example of his theme. He used visual metaphors along with the written narration to help get the point across (the collapsing buidlings and sheared sheep). The majority of the documentary takes on a depressing tone but at the end reverses it by repesenting the final step of grief with a birth, showing that the end can sometimes beget a beginning.

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