Restrepo

The film is about American trrops spending a 15 month depliment of one of the most dangours places in the world, Korangal Valley. It follows the story of the troop, and what they were doing out there. There were interviews of them now and talking about what happend to them and how they are effected, also linking it with the footage from the time in the Korangal Valley made the film more real and you could be there with them.

As a spectator I thought the film was really good and it was completly real. I thought it gave us the spectatour an inside look to what it is like to fight out there that we shall never experince in our lives. I thought it was a way of showing us what it must be like to be out there in that kid of enviroment.

8 Boys and Wanting a Girl - Channel 4 Documentary

When deciding what documentary I should write about I went onto channel 4 documentaries on 4OD and had a look through. After reading a few of them I found one that sounded very interesting, it was called 8 Boys and Wanting a Girl. It looked really interesting and coming from a big family I thought I might be able to relate to it. The documentary looked at women who have a psychological condition called "Gender Disappointment" were woman desire a particulate gender and don't feel complete without having a child with the desired sex.

The documentary followed 4 woman, 1 from America and 3 from England. Each all had boys. 3 Woman having 4 boys and the other woman having 8. All the woman were tiring to have a girl, and tried through different methods. Mainly using a method call GD were woman can choose what sex they want their baby to have in a method similar to IVF. 2 woman in the programe tried to have a daughter this way with one of the woman having tried for the 3rd time each costing over $10,00 the other tiring for the 2nd time. Another woman tried to have a 5th child hoping for a daughter naturally and the last woman hoped she hadn't hit menopause before she thought it was to late.

It was an eye opener to see woman try to have a preferred baby, I always thought woman were happy with what they had and if they didn't get it they would just be thankful. But the documentary amazing to watch to see how desperate woman were to have the daughter. Having 2 brothers and 2 sister I don't have the feeling that if I had children did I want a girl or a boy and watching the documentary made me realize that I don't really care what child gender I have.

I also think the documentary was very bias. It only showed these 4 woman and how desperate they were to want a girl. I think that it would make any spectator watching it believe that all woman hold this view about girl. What backed up this argument was seeing the husband to a woman about he didn't understand what it was about his wife the made her want to have a daughter so badly. I think what would've made the documentary more dramatic would've been a woman who had 4 daughter but wanted a son. This would've had a really good back up on the view the documentary was trying to get across.

Man On Wire (2008)

This docemntry film was very good. I really enjoyed the story behind Phillppe Pettie and why he did it. I think it was really good for it showed a mans story on how he wanted to achive his dream. I think the film could've been better and had more mention about 9/11. But I think over all it showed how brave he was and how nothing was going to stop him from doing it.