Film/TV2: Analysis/Reflection 2: Q1

In the lecture we screened a short film called ‘End of the Line’ – the film shot in Broken Hill. 

Please describe in 300 words or less if you think they achieved what they set out to do.

I feel that the producers have succeeded in terms of execution and choice of cast. “We want the footage to make the audience realise how small they are in comparison to nature,” I feel that their approach towards a documentary which has somewhat a mystic undertone has been successfully brought out through the sublime outback, along with the personalities that accompanied it, i.e. the elderly woman who went there just to spend the remainders of her life. I like the seclusion and isolation that is portrayed by the cast because it somehow compliments the entire setting of the documentary. I liked that the producers did not include a narration because the personality brought out by the people justified their intentions. In terms of aesthetics, some of the shots were beautifully constructed, in which, without any verbal explanation, carried meaning. Some shots, however, like the cutaways, were shaky and I think it, in a way, disrupted the calmness of the film.