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Cinema Critique

I chose to use the ending of the movie The A-Team. There are a lot of cinematic shots in this scene that seem extremely hard to do. The scene takes place in a ship yard where all of the shipping containers had fallen off a ship into a huge fiery mess. There was smoke everywhere and there was a couple shots that slowly zoomed out on the entire scene and it looked awesome. the director did an awesome job setting up the set to make everything stand out yet fade into the background as well. This was a gun scene between two people and the director kept the clips short every time someone shot making for a very intense scene. 

Documentary review

"Back To Life"

I watched the documentary Back to Life. It’s about a skier named Torin Yater-Wallace who persevered through countless life threatening injuries and illnesses. He is the world's best halfpipe skier and has been in all of the Winter Olympics and x-games and has medaled in all of them. This film was directed and filmed by Clayton Vila. The aspects of this film is absolutely breathtaking and the filming is perfect. This movie was filmed with a RED camera and has some of the most beautiful cinematic shots of skiing. Torin had one huge step back in his career and it was when he got a life threatening kidney infection and had to be put into a paralysis coma for two weeks. This all happened three months before the winter Sochi Olympic Games. He came out of the coma and had to learn how to walk again. Doctors said he wouldn’t be able to ski for at least a couple years and wouldn’t be able to run for about six months. That wasn’t Torins plan though. Torin worked so hard and somehow did the impossible, he got himself to ski in three months and competed in the Winter Olympics. That is absolutely mind blowing, he was learning how to walk three months before competing in the worlds highest level. Another thing about Torin is that his childhood was awful, his dad was arrested and put in jail for embezzlement and fraud and his family was living off of food stamps and sleeping in a car. Torin first competed in the X Games at age 15 and won a silver medal. He was the youngest skier ever to do so, and after doing that he started picking up sponsors and making a lot of money. Torin, as a fifteen year old, was single handedly supporting his mother and sister financially. This movie was beautifully shot and edited perfectly and I definitely recommend everyone to watch this film.

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