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Out of Shadows (2020)
Painful to watch...
As someone who usually enjoy this kind of media, i jumped into this film as soon as i found it. The entire concept is very interesting and actual. The whole idea of how mass behavior might be influenced by audiovisual platforms is fascinating.
As expected, the main point of this film was within the narrative. Photography is really only being used to illustrate ideas and show some dialogue pieces/answers. Being this subject quite complex, i got really intrigued into how the director would lead the viewer and how information would be presented.
The first 10 mins got me answered quite accurately as it starts with the director himself defining what lead him to what he calls "the truth". From then on, the plot closed further and further within his "truth" with questionable dialogues and a serious lack of objectivity on correlations.
By the end i was really in pain. It felt claustrophobic. I got disturbed by how forced the subject had been treated. I think a pinch of ideological bias generally make documentaries more interesting but i don't think it worked for this one. Personally and paradoxically i feel like this film fell right into the hole of what it mainly addresses. Can a documentary directed through biased ideologies be manipulative and controlling? It seems to me like it was a good demonstration of exactly that.