Like a broken record: Bin Laden won. No one sees it. “We kicked his ass! Hello, we even shot him!” Yet he emerges the victor, nonetheless. Exactly like the Joker “loses” in THE DARK KNIGHT, but in fact, is totally victorious. If Han Solo dies shuttimg down the forcefield generator on the forest moon …
We should not have gone to war in Afghanistan, either. Instead, we should have forgiven Al-Qaeda. That’s what President Martin Luther King would do. Then he would have cleaned up Ground Zero and built a new World Trade Centre two stories taller. Life would have gone on. They wouldn’t have made those awful “dark” Superman …
It’s just a flesh wound, on the first day of interiors. Yet, it’s prominent, no? 😉 I’m the Indiana Jones of guerrilla filmmaking, people! It is a very slow grind but we are doing it.
Shooting this “challenge” documentary has been a real experience: it’s a good mental challenge to work on non-fiction and find a compelling narrative; it’s great to be shooting something; and, again, it is a real eye-opener to how difficult it is to shoot the truth. Over and over again (pretty much every day I can …