Rating?


I'm embarrassed to say I've just seen this. Watched it over the course of five nights (needed a break after the first two). It dawned on me, while watching and now that I've finished, that it's hardly "well done," because it features so much personal bias on the part of the documentarian, but it's almost perfect in its approach. As unnerving as it is, the long repetitive shots, which are quite boring by disc 3, are important, one as a buffer, but as a reminder, these places are still here, whether changed or not, they exist. Is it a 10 rating based on how it is put together? Absolutely not. Is it a ten, based on the emotions it stirs, maybe. Is it a ten, in that it may very well be the most important documentary of all-time? No, because, as Mr. Ebert stated, it's in a class by itself. There is no fair rating, because it's the only movie ever made that should be required viewing. Pictures of atrocities can almost feel staged, but these people recounting buried thoughts, is something I will never ever forget.

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10/10. A masterpiece and inventive piece of documentary filmmaking and ultimately powerful art.


Cinema is the memory of life.

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