Plot, and Theme of the movie

Rating: 8/10 (29 July 2012)

Star Trek (2009) is a known film about how a young troubling boy James Kirk (Chris Pine) had a dad who was a great leader as Lieutenant Commander George Kirk. His dad was known for saving the lives of hundreds of people and sacrificing his own life in the process. Years later when James Kirk grew up he was involved in a scuffle at a bar where he met some members of a Starfleet and was convinced in going to Starfleet Academy to start a career. Years after being in Starfleet Academy he was found of cheating on one of his test by Commander Spock (Zachary Quinto). During the debate on Kirk's cheating, there was a distress signal coming from Vulcan and everyone at the Starfleet Academy was mobilized for the distress call. Kirk was on the USS Enterprise with Spock and when they arrived at Vulcan had found out everything was destroyed by a Captain Nero (Eric Bana) and it was a trap. The Captain of the Enterprise was taken as a hostage and was left up to Kirk and Commander Spock to save him. In result they did save the Captain and ended up destroying Captain Nero's ship in the process. For James Kirk's acts of bravery and fortitude, he was awarded the rank of Captain and leader of the USS Enterprise with Spock being second in command.
The overall theme of this movie was how a young man not experienced at anything was able to show acts of valor and bravery, risk his own life in the process, for the well-being of the others that he cares about. James Kirk showed how his acts resulted in a betterment of his own life, while showing other people of what they are capable of and how to achieve goals in life.
The camera angles that were done in this movie were well thought of, and were the best angles that a movie could have. There were some scenes in particular where the characters had to be rescued by a type of beam that one of the workers on the Enterprise had to operate. There were all sorts of different camera angles when one character had fallen, and Kirk had to jump after that character to rescue him. There were many horizontal and parallel cuts in this seem to make it look as realistic as possible, as if they really were falling. To me this was a great job by the director to help the audience be involved with the emotion, while also keeping the audience "on the edge of their seat."
Another scene where lighting was an important aspect of the movie was where Spock had to find his family on their planet and rescue them. It was where Spock had been "beamed" off of the ship and onto his family's planet. The lighting was great because it allowed the character Spock to make it look as if he was faded out and put somewhere else. This was an important aspect because it allowed people to believe that this is real because it looked real because of the lighting. This to me just made the movie more believable and helped out with understanding it.