Good documentary. Very in depth. However, and I do apologise, but the soundtrack is shocking. Bad choice of songs. The backing track sometimes overpowers the interviews. If someone is giving an interview then it's very strange to have a music piece playing with vocals underneath them. Quite a few of the montages in this documentary , which are mainly of Ralph's artwork , are paired with very bad music. This ruins the tone of the documentary - of course this is just my opinion. The main thing I will take away from this doc is that it had a bad choice of music, and music placement - other than that it's brilliant and a must buy.
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Seven Samurai
(1954)
A film of two halves - to the casual viewer
9 February 2016
Great film.
Now I wouldn't say action packed. I would say this film can be split in two - much like a thin man.
For the casual viewer who is used to todays action packed, explosion a minute, block busters this film might want to be skipped to exactly midway through the film - the part with all the fighting, blood, and that sort of thing.
The first half is dialogue heavy and deals with many hot topics around samurai culture, as well as establishing the revenge plot line that runs through the entire film.
If you are lazy skip the film to half way and watch from there - if you want a truly engrossing film to sink your teeth into (not to mention a classic) you will definitely want to give this a watch.
Now I wouldn't say action packed. I would say this film can be split in two - much like a thin man.
For the casual viewer who is used to todays action packed, explosion a minute, block busters this film might want to be skipped to exactly midway through the film - the part with all the fighting, blood, and that sort of thing.
The first half is dialogue heavy and deals with many hot topics around samurai culture, as well as establishing the revenge plot line that runs through the entire film.
If you are lazy skip the film to half way and watch from there - if you want a truly engrossing film to sink your teeth into (not to mention a classic) you will definitely want to give this a watch.
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