Tesla

This film has a little bit of historical and biography genres for me. It's a film about the great Nikola Tesla who was probably one of the greatest minds in human history behind Michelangelo, Newton, and Einstein. The director took on the role of a reporter and a chronicler giving a very detailed account of what happened in his life over a 100 years ago. One burning question that comes to mind, is what would the world be like today had there not have been a Nikola Tesla? Some of the visual imagery I noticed in the film was a lot of old photos from that period, and newspaper articles that covered his progress in the field of electricity. The most important theme I took out of this movie was the dedication and sheer genius it took to make the man that he became. He worked tirelessly at his craft and came up with some very important discoveries and inventions that many of us take for granted today. And he never did it for the money, he wasn't a businessman like Thomas Edison. He did it to help mankind. One of the stakes I noticed was what would have happened had his warehouse not caught fire and spiraled him into obscurity? The editing style was very linear. They use a lot of stock footage to give the audience a magnificent illustration of the man. It never ceases to amaze me just how brilliant this guy actually was. The more I learn about him, the more I really respect him not just as a scientist, but as a human being.