Rut #3 Las Acacias - Jacqueline Usterud

This movie was intriguing to me. I found that even though there was barely any dialogue going on over the course of a 90 minute long movie, I was glued to the screen. The simple cinematography and the script made the movie more relatable to me. I did watch the movie with english subtitles online, but could still decipher some spanish from what I learned in sixth/seventh grade. I noticed that there was not a lot of focus on fancy milieu, editing, make-up and action pieces, but that the movie was filmed out of a fairly natural point of view The movie seemed real to me, as if it was filmed from one persons view of the travelling people. I enjoyed the side-mirror shots, and the "over the shoulder" looks from the travelers which displayed their interaction with each other and the landscape they left behind. The mirrors to me signified the meaning of leaving something rough and unspoken behind to start anew. This is something I do not see often in American Movies. It was a nice change to have little dialogue, no soundtrack or music, A LOT OF SILENCE, little cinematography and little action happen in a movie, and still being able to get so much out of it.

My poster therefore displays these feelings I got from the movie.