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An okay historical documentary
A documentary movie that tries to convince you that you should know this city beyond just the name. But even its name is a clone of that of the city that is 400 years older.
The film consists of a lot of voice narration over photos, paintings, drone shots and random chunks of somewhat related movies (akin to Redroom). For Jason Statham quotes they use costumed actors. Some of the events are translated into modern business buzzword anglicisms. One of such semi-jokes was pretty much on point, but the rest sound a bit cringey.
For the old 4//3 footage, it mostly uses pan & scan. But then sometimes they use pillarboxing, and there's no rhyme or reason. Some important things end up being cropped in pan & scan, while some meaningless nature shots are pillarboxed.
Preserving the format of old footage is the only proper choice. But if you decided to have pan & scan then do it to everything. These jumps between formats look unprofessional and scatterbrained. And then there is some footage of a theatrical movie that was stretched vertically to fit 16//9. That's the biggest offence in the profession, nothing can be worse. The human brain was honed for that specific task since day one.
Overall it's okay, but it is unfocused and unmemorable. The lacklustre packaging is more noticeable than the contents.
The film consists of a lot of voice narration over photos, paintings, drone shots and random chunks of somewhat related movies (akin to Redroom). For Jason Statham quotes they use costumed actors. Some of the events are translated into modern business buzzword anglicisms. One of such semi-jokes was pretty much on point, but the rest sound a bit cringey.
For the old 4//3 footage, it mostly uses pan & scan. But then sometimes they use pillarboxing, and there's no rhyme or reason. Some important things end up being cropped in pan & scan, while some meaningless nature shots are pillarboxed.
Preserving the format of old footage is the only proper choice. But if you decided to have pan & scan then do it to everything. These jumps between formats look unprofessional and scatterbrained. And then there is some footage of a theatrical movie that was stretched vertically to fit 16//9. That's the biggest offence in the profession, nothing can be worse. The human brain was honed for that specific task since day one.
Overall it's okay, but it is unfocused and unmemorable. The lacklustre packaging is more noticeable than the contents.
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- agof
- Dec 8, 2021
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- The Pocket of Russia
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- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
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- 16:9 HD
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