I feel like it had been a long time. It's been a while anyway since I've watched a work of

cinema verite like this. And I really appreciated how the film kind of made me work. It made

it demanded my attention for, you know, not even that long, right? 20 to 25 minutes or something.

And I found myself so richly rewarded, particularly in the second half, because of that

investment of time and focus and because of the emotional bond I was able to make with it.

All a very roundabout way of saying that I enjoyed this film very much. And yeah, Werner Herzog,

God love him, he's wrong about cinema verity. I wondered how long it would take for one of us to mention Werner Herzog, God love him, he's wrong about Cinema Verite.

I wondered how long it would take for one of us to mention Werner Herzog's objections.

Drink.

I mean, you know, it's funny about Cinema Verite, though.

I feel like it has a reputation of being a sort of old-fashioned or stayed documentary form, eating your vegetables or something like that. I mean, this movie feels dangerous. I totally agree. Sorry to interrupt you, but I want to enthusiastically agree with

that point. This film, despite showing you scenes that in some sense anyway are kind of banal,

it feels like there's a real edge to it. It's such a dynamic

portrait that it's presenting you with. It didn't seem old fashioned to me at all. In fact, I think

it really enables you to see how in the 1960s especially, this really was kind of a dynamic and

transgressive medium. And there's so much more to it than just, oh, you're just filming stuff and not editorializing on it. Yeah, you know, not just what it depicts, but also the

way that it depicts it. Another thing that's easy to forget is cinema verite and this huge

revolution in documentary filmmaking that happened in the 60s was made possible by the emergence

of new lighter movie cameras.

They could shoot with 16mm film, which was lighter than 35 millimeter, on these cameras that were more portable.

And so they could carry the camera.

The camera could get into the nooks and crannies of a scene.

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