If someone was to tell me that I was going to watch a movie about a war in the 1700's I would have expected a somewhat boring, history channel style documentary, with cheesy re-enactments and obnoxious experts. I have to say that I was presently surprised with Culloden.
The camera work and opening introductions throughout Culloden were incredible. The camera work blurred the boundaries between modern day news footage and narrative war movies. Crossing between close-up interview shots of the "characters" in the war to point of view shots of these "characters" falling through their death was an interesting way to blur the boundaries between the two types of camera work. The narration and interviewer also blurred the boundaries. The narrator asks questions to the soldiers, which gives the feeling of modern day documentary or news footage, especially when the interviewers questions have to be translated. The boundaries are blurred when the narrator crosses over and voices his narration with lines such as, "This is three pound, this is what it does." These moments of the film gave it the feeling of instructional video.
Overall the crossing of boundaries between classic narrative and modern day news gives this historic event a new and unique style that I have yet to see in any other films, especially when you add the blurred boundaries of the narration style.
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