sidneyseavers

This is the slowest and most boring movie I think I have ever seen. The opening scene is basically the setting for the entire movie. People gathered around in a random house chatting. They are allegedly scientists and they just keep talking about hypotheticals while a boring elevator tune continues to play in the background. From what I could tell that was the premise of the entire movie. One guy thinks he is a caveman and keeps talking to convince himself, the others and I guess us s an audience that he is a caveman? I don't know. Even tho it's from 2007 it looks like it was filmed in 1997. The quality is just not there.

I think this is a really interesting take on a documentary. We truly don't know everything about a society from thousands of years ago regardless of how many texts and artifacts are found. However a volcano happened to preserve nearly an entire town and we get a glimpse into the life there like no other site on earth. This documentary expands upon that and takes a more artistic approach into depicting the culture. This documentary is definitely not for everyone as it's quite unique and brings in a lot of artistic elements that one doesn't normally see in a standard documentary. I would say this first artistic cut aways of a Pompeiian myth is quite unnecessarily long. I had to check if I was watching the same show still.

I am trying to figure out what makes this series so great. One I think it's not your typical travel show. "Look at my hotel. Watch me eat this thing you've seen someone eat a million times. Look at me take a picture in front of that typical thing." No. She takes us to an Uzbek wedding, talks to a female DJ in Kyrgyzstan exploring social topics. She is bold (in a polite way) and not shy or awkward. She is absolutely the right person for the job. She often is speaking or reading in the local language so she is on top of being beautiful she is also smart. I may be a little biased because I always have found Central Asia quite mysterious. Besides one other series (an Italian one about the Silk Road) I haven't seen many travel series that spend extensive amount of time in the region.