Documentaries

My mom finally gave into my sister and I's begging and subscribed to Netflix. And yes, there are lots of shows I'm dying to watch, but what I was most excited for we're the documentaries. I had read a lot of great things about a lot of them and I had been dying to finally have the means and the time to do so.

The first day with the subscription, I watched 2 films. The September Issue about Vogue and Anna Wintour. I had literally wanted to see this since it was made in 2007. It was such an interesting and beautiful movie. I loved seeing the passion all of these people working at the magazine have for fashion and their publication. It was amazing to see their dedication. And it was also interesting to see Anna's own daughter saying how foolish and pointless she thought fashion was. While the entire film was intended to shed light on the inner workings of the most influential magazine, probably ever, they allowed the little snippet to slip in and just suggest that maybe this thing everyone is dedicating their life to is actually very trivial.
Nevertheless it was an amazing film and I loved every single second of it.



The second film I watched was called Life in a Day. The concept of the film was that people all over the world took videos of their daily lives on the same day--July 24th, 2010-- and sent it in to nat geo where they created a film. It was absolutely beautiful. While it did depict how different people all over the world are, what I noticed more was how similar they are. It was stunning and there were so many amazing moments linked with run of the mill ones. It made life seem like such a beautiful thing. A kind of stark contrast to The September Issue, but amazing.

Though its very time consuming, watching documentaries is preferable to fiction films sometimes because its amazing to see things as they really are, before the scripting and the editing and staging, there is something about a documentary that is so raw and compelling. They almost always open your eyes, and make you consider life in a different way.