La Mancha

I first saw La Mancha a couple of years ago because for one, Terry Gilliam is a huge inspiration to me, and two it is about the process of making a film, and the sometimes problems that arise. The genre for this film is Direct Cinema or Observational because the filmmaker or even the camera have very little effect on the people in the movie. The role of the filmmaker is observer, again because they don't really interact with the subjects or the story in anyway. The burning question for me at the beginning and the end of the film is, "will this film ever get made?" I guess we answered that today though as Amazon is putting up the money to finance the project. Some of the visual imagery I noticed was old footage used to describe and illustrate the previous failed versions of the La Mancha. I think the theme of this movie was to show the audience just how difficult a process it is to make a movie, even with talent as great as Terry Gilliam or Johnny Depp. One stake was will Terry Gilliam prove worthy enough to beat the "curse" of this project and finally finish making it, where so many others failed. The editing style was kind of slow paced. I didn't get grabbed right away. But many times, I find that to not necessarily be a bad thing. All in all, it was a pretty good movie. I would highly recommend it to any film buff, but perhaps not to any regular Joe.