Mert's Blog

Crime and Punishment is one of those documentaries where not only does it inform you but it changes your outlook on life. I know that in Queens there is a lot of police activity going on even if it is not as extreme as seen on Crime and Punishment. Ever since the increase of ICE presence in Queens there has been countless stories of cops in the area acting on the same protocol as ICE. Ive heard about police officers stepping down because of the tasks they are given but I never knew the in depth analysis of the situation. This documentary different than others because you can obviously tell this was done with hear from what was shown on screen and the Q&A. This shows a whole different perspective of the NYPD. The documentary did a well job of showing  the internal conflicts of the NYPD including the police on police harassment through specific events going through the officers lives it really made it seem like the viewer was there witnessing the event. Maing did a very good...

For this assignment I picked a scene from one of the most under rated films I have seen. A few people think that this movie just doesn't have what it takes to be a solid action film but with its emphasis on silence (audio), pauses, and still shots the specific scene shows that you don't need much to create one of the best scenes from a movie in recent history. To give a quick description of the scene Ryan Gosling who is "The Driver" is set to pick up two guys from a heist and escape through police trouble. Every item that is zoomed into to give it a close up shot shows importance in the next scenes to come. The drum like beat in the background of this scene provides the sense of action almost like a fast heart beat the background sound makes the scene even more tense without the use of words or actions. Most of the shots in the beginning of the scene is a close up or an establishing shot with barely any movement in them to provide a brief glance of the setting a...

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