Haunting realism.

Rating: 10/10 (24 February 2007)

If you are a fan of the documentary genre then this film is right up your alley. Everything from the visual style to the sound comes across as if there was really a documentary crew following the events of that day. The actor's performance are so fluid and reactive of the films atmosphere that you completely forget all together that you are watching a narrative film. Understand that this means that this is truly unlike your normal movie, even a historically based one at that. People have complained of the camera shakiness and even the unability to understand everything that is being said. But when watching this you have to understand that in order to make a documentary style film, you have to shoot...well.... documentary style. Which means no lighting set ups... which they didn't have... or even having everyone and everything being said perfectly recorded. However.. certain dialogue from different main characters... even that which was off in the distance could be heard clearly for the sake of communicating what was going on with the characters.. but apart from that... it is pretty raw. However this is one film that will haunt you for quite a while.