The Forth Kind
I went to see this movie and just have not been able to get rid of this feeling of frustration I feel about it. I feel the need to express my feelings about this movie in hopes to either find someone to talk about it with, or to just get it off my chest so I can finally be done with it.
I came away from the movie very disturbed, and was very let down when I found out that nothing about the movie was true at all. I felt somewhat cheated because I went to the movie based on that fact that it was based on events that had actually happened. I lost sleep because I thought that even if the 'actual footage' was faked that it was possible it was still based on something similar that had happened. But doing some research it seems that there is not even one grain of truth to it.
After getting over my anger I tried to think of why they would have filmed it and put the movie together like that. The truth of the matter is that the general population is somewhat Jaded by your stereotypical horror movie. I guess for generations they spent money and time trying to make the gore and violence you see in the movies ‘look’ like real life I guess the next step would be to make people actually viewing it believe that it IS real life.
This type of movie only has an impact if a person can leave themselves emotionally vulnerable and is able to relate to the helplessness of the characters involved with the story. I guess they thought the only way to achieve this was to have the person going to the movie think it was real and feel as if what they are seeing could in fact happen. When seen in this light it invokes an HP-Lovecraft psychological horror effect.
I don't think they needed to fool people to get that effect though. They could have said upfront that it was not real or made it more of a mocumentry. By trying to fool the public I feel it degrades the integrity of films that have actually been based on real events. I don't expect movies to tell the truth but I expect that movies said to be based on actual events should be. If you blur the line between fact and fiction how does someone know what to believe anymore.
*sighs* I guess I need to vent about it... here ends that rant.
I came away from the movie very disturbed, and was very let down when I found out that nothing about the movie was true at all. I felt somewhat cheated because I went to the movie based on that fact that it was based on events that had actually happened. I lost sleep because I thought that even if the 'actual footage' was faked that it was possible it was still based on something similar that had happened. But doing some research it seems that there is not even one grain of truth to it.
After getting over my anger I tried to think of why they would have filmed it and put the movie together like that. The truth of the matter is that the general population is somewhat Jaded by your stereotypical horror movie. I guess for generations they spent money and time trying to make the gore and violence you see in the movies ‘look’ like real life I guess the next step would be to make people actually viewing it believe that it IS real life.
This type of movie only has an impact if a person can leave themselves emotionally vulnerable and is able to relate to the helplessness of the characters involved with the story. I guess they thought the only way to achieve this was to have the person going to the movie think it was real and feel as if what they are seeing could in fact happen. When seen in this light it invokes an HP-Lovecraft psychological horror effect.
I don't think they needed to fool people to get that effect though. They could have said upfront that it was not real or made it more of a mocumentry. By trying to fool the public I feel it degrades the integrity of films that have actually been based on real events. I don't expect movies to tell the truth but I expect that movies said to be based on actual events should be. If you blur the line between fact and fiction how does someone know what to believe anymore.
*sighs* I guess I need to vent about it... here ends that rant.