Gomez on watkins

Gomez does a pretty good job of going through giving the reader an idea of how this film came to be. Like most great films, this one was not intended to be made, or should I say was not some weird amazing Idea that watkins came up with all on his own. It came to watkins through a series of events, let downs, a circumstances, and then finally was made. If one watches the director interview with watkins on the dvd to punishment park, they will see and hear watkins talk about alot of the stuff mentioned in the gomez article. It's interesting that three films losing funding, and a dis heartened watkins being touched by the events that surrounded the kent state massacre, would eventually lead to what I feel is one of deepest and most profound mockumentaires ever made. Gomez does a good analysis of this film and how it came to be.