OT: Our Town
I must not be very well educated because I'm not familiar with the play Our Town. I liked how this film was structured. Separating the preparation for the performance into the same three parts used in the play made a nice connection to the theme: People, and life in general, stay consistent. The ideas present in the play - life, love, death, inter-human relationships - are present in Compton. Each one of the youth in the film have great potential. They need to see it in themselves and others need to see it in them.
I understand that when shooting documentary you often don't have control over lighting. Many of the shots, though, were either blown out or over exposed. That was a bit distracting.
I wonder how much of the film was scripted. It looked like there were multiple interviews, but it appears that they had the main interviews with the kids after the show and had them respond to the questions as if they had just barely experienced key points in the film. I got this impression because in the interviews, the kids seem to wear the same two shirts.
Let's pretend that the interviews were all scripted, I still think it was true to the nature and feel of the film. I've been in plays before. I know that things can get pretty stressful. I can only imagine how things would feel in the situation they were in - no budget, no stage until the day before their performance, no drama program - and yet they were able to pull off a performance and start a new legacy for the school.
Good film. Certainly worth watching.
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