The Film

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          Keeping in mind the I had to take the SATs last Saturday, I watched the film True Grit at Loews theater. I got home around 10: 30 pm. If one were to ask me whether it was worth the loss of sleep I would have to tell them no. the movie did not seem like the commercials. The commercials make it seem like it is a hard core revenge film, but that is not the case. In fact this film seemed like a pure comedy. 
          This story line begins with the old man on trial for the murder of another men. Everyone in theater laughed when they saw this one eyed man unable to articulate, or even recollect these murders that he is being accused of.
          The young girl travels to Arkansas, where the old man was, because she had to deliver her fathers body back home to her mother and younger siblings. However, this girl wants to stay to avenge her father. She is angered when she finds out that another ranger is hunting down her fathers murderer, Chaney. She wants the murder to die because he killed her father not because he committed a crime in another country, and she wanted Chaney to know that.
          They travel into Indian Territory in order to track down Chaney, with the sorry excuse for a Texas ranger, Mr. La beef. They tried to ditch Mattie in the beginning of the journey but she is a very persistent young lady who knows what she wants.
          Waking up in the morning, Mattie went down to a river to retrieve some water. Low and behold, there was Chaney right across the river. Now I would expect that this was supposed to be the most emotional scene in the whole film but it was an extremely funny one. There was Mattie unable to carry a gun, and there was Chaney saying that he remember her like an old babysitter would.
          These film movement were outrages. By outrages I mean that there were specific angles the camera was positioned in during certain scenes. for example during the scenes were they rode on their horses together, it was an over the shoulder shot. Shots were the it seemed the viewer was right over the persons shoulder, listening in. During the scenes there was shootings they were high angle shots. Shots were the camera pointed down. I liked these shots the most because they were also long shots. The people hide on hillsides to try to catch the enemy by surprise. Now that I think about it these shot were also point of view because it seemed like people in the theater were trying to aim too shoot the enemy.