The storyline weaved professional journalism and filmmaking together to create a mysterious yet edge on your seat path of a missing teenager. Eric Wilson left Canada and was headed to Boulder, Colorado. Along the way, he disappeared along his journey in Nebraska. The film showed news casts of his family's search for him. The realism and timing of editing from the filmmaker direct the audience to feel a real-time account of a missing kid.
The beauty of a film is when the subject matter can make a viewer feel as if the incident is happening now or a similar situation can be occurring tomorrow. I compare a quality of a film in mere of a great song which can transcend throughout a lifetime. A song produced fifty years ago can be relatable and pull the strings of someone's emotions from time when it was released to current times.
I enjoyed being bombarded by the evidence leading to his death by clues and interviews of investigators. Unfortunately, he was found murdered. Although there is a sad ending for the film, I learned how one can edit and put together a film to make the audience drawn in for a hour and an half as we witnessed the news first hand as we stay glued to a major news event.
Sometimes, I watch on youTube the September 11th, 2001 incident with the twin towers and relive the terrifying and horrifying event from people jumping out of the buildings after the planes. Imagine stitching that contents together with today's interviews of the families affected by the tragedy. The content is a challenging art form within itself. The brilliance of this film caused me to rethink and refine the frames and thoughts of the whole concept of filmmaking.
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