Review of Movie Review

The movie review "Freedom Fighter in Life Becomes Potent Symbol in Death", written by A.O.Scott is a review of the 2008 film, "Milk". This review had a bit of an odd structure, giving historical context for the film and the authors critique of the directing and overall film, interwoven with pieces of a summary. The summary was not at all linear, so unless you had already see the movie, you would have to read through the entire review to get a good idea of the plot.

This review focuses mainly on the literary aspects of the film. The majority of it is either a summary or the parts of history that the summary fits with. The historical context allows the reader to further appreciate the summary and to understand the context in which the story takes place. The film has also has a paragraph about the dramatic aspects of the film, but only talks about Shaw Penn, the lead actor.  There is really only a sentence in which the cinematic aspects of the film.

Scott seemed to love the film and have a lot of respect both for the film and its namesake. He writes that in his opinion, "Milk" is the best live-action mainstream American movie of 2008. He praises the director, script, actors, cinematography, and musical score.

For our quarterly movie reviews, I think that we should have to touch on certain key points and meet certain criteria, such as setting a clear tone, and writing about all three aspects of film. That said, I think that the general structure of the review should be left up to us. For me, what makes movie reviews interesting is that often, they're unique, written in their own style with their own structure. Basically, there should be certain points that we have to cover, but we should be allowed freedom in the way in which we cover these points.

The links to may annotation wound up on two separate pages because the review was two pages long:
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