Review of Journey to the Flames Film

Review of “Journey to the Flames” Film
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Review of Journey to the Flames
The film Journey to the flames by Williams takes us through Nevada’s legendary Burning Man Festival. The documentary shows the festival, which takes place in the Black Rock desert, and is a depiction of the art of the Burning Man as cover for ten years. The film also shows the culture of these people as shown through the different participants.
The documentary has done much regarding creating a multi-dimensional story. In the beginning, the documentary does not immediately establish its characters. It neither does the same for their relationships and historical backgrounds. By using this method, it makes it hard for most people to be sure of the story and of whether to follow it or not. Although time is taken to establish all these, the story flows seamlessly once the groundwork is done with. The story is rich with suspense that can keep a person guessing all through to the end and this, therefore, means that those who do not follow through to the end miss a lot. The documentary is successful in its avoidance of lengthy descriptions that would otherwise be distractive to following the action and instead, the writing style used is clean. Unnecessary descriptions would also mean spoon-feeding the audience and not allowing them to use their imagination.
The loose structure of Journey to the Flames film also employs the use of vignettes to pass its message across. The plot of the story and the ...