Medium Cool is, at best, Moderately Cool

Medium Cool was somewhat interesting because of the way these characters were placed in an important time period, but the story seems to suffer because the filmmakers had to somehow place these characters within these events. The characters have interesting stories, but they are not ineteresting enough to keep an entire film going. A film told with true events behind it has the potential to be extremely interesting, but Medium Cool does not allow us to come close enough to the characters to care what happens to them in the story. The film itself does make interesting comments on society and the Civil Rights movement, but the characters themselves only seem to be mediocre tools to make us see what is going on in the counrty. It was hard to feel any true compassion for the characters of the film because so little of their character was given to us. Robert Forestar's character seemed very distant, but almost to the extent where the audience would not want to know what happened to him. The filmmaker was obviously trying to make a political statement in the film, but he shoudl have been focusing on the characters just as much as the statement he was trying to make. The death of the characters came out of nowhere at the end but, even though the filmmaker wanted the viewer to see that everyone is watching this, it would have been more interesting to show some cause in the car accident. The characters do develop throughout the film, especially Robert Forstar's character, but not to the point where the viewer really has any true remorse for the character.