Umm...we didn't study film theory very much. I don't know if the class has caused me to reconsider this but I have realized even more so lately, how films are mediums and vehicles. I've seen a lot of documentaries that are just blatant vehicles and they state the obvious but then I saw the Constant Gardener. It is a narrative film but really does well exploring social injustices and the like. This also happened when I saw Il Conformista, a brief synopsis from IMDB: "A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident." I thought that it conveyed reality very well even though I have never been in that situation and probably never will be. From what I know though, this film delivered a thorough glimpse into that particular situation very realistically. I had no doubts that the situation wouldn't be the way it was portrayed. I have started to appreciate heavy-hitting narratives more than ever now. I guess talking about space and time giving rise to this occasion would make the most sense. In the films that have really moved me that were trying to deliver a distinct message about something that is wrong with the world, the concepts of space and time were portrayed extremely accurately and to my knowledge were all completely true and not very exaggerated. I don't know if I understood this question at all or answered it correctly. =)
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