Hail Primary

Jeanne Lynn Hall's, “Realism as a Style in Cinema Verite: A Critical Analysis of Primary" was a waste of time. Perhaps if I was entirely unfamilar with the way that films were made, this article would have been useful to me, but after more thanf our years of film school, it was mainly just a waste of time. I understand that she was trying to break down the film in what was almost a shot by shot analysis of the events that occurred, but why? Was article for people who were not film majors? Even though primary itself was a ground breaking film and something that many had not seen, the craft of making films was around for almost seventy years when primary first came out. People in the movie business understood what was involved with making Primary, and all the techniques that Drew was using to subtley get his message across. Plus, if the article is not for people in the business and directly involved in film, then who was Hall trying to reach. It just seems that if one is writing an article for a group of people that study film, or dissect films, or converse about films on an intellectual level, she should do more than simply break down techniques to make two things look like they are related.