best f1 film yet. feel like if i'd seen this in high school i'd've been better prepared for the grim realities of the year 2009

i get why someone wanting students to begin approaching documentaries as rhetorical/ideological works would use something like this as part of that longer conversation. i can also see why he'd say that morris was "cursed" by this film actually doing/changing something in the world. seeing this after the fact makes "the act of killing" (which was, tbf, exec produced by morris) seem less surprising and daring and genre-/form-bending (though it's still all of those, probably) and instead almost inevitable (if not it, than something else, etc). gonna try to watch more morris to see what he does elsewhere

much sillier than i anticipated. missed the northman, but i think eggers has been diminishing returns with each new film. saints don't need to venerate relics