Creative Critical Reflection #1:

Question 1?

How does your product use or challenge conventions, and how does it represent social issues?

Obviously, with our film being a much darker and more cruel topic, this question is, in my opinion, super relevant to our film opening.

Coming into this film, as a group we wanted from the beginning to make a film that was flat, no-depth, unemotional, and, to be honest, with no real reason behind it. We knew we wanted to spread a message with our film opening, and that message for us was: “Being cruel or in any way unkind only leads you towards a darker path.”

Our film follows two detectives and a mysterious killer, but in all of this, it is more than just a cat-and-mouse game between them. The relationship between these three characters is based on the idea of: “How can humanity survive and somehow coexist with evil?”

Our film challenges conventions by showing the path of the killer and how he gets to this point of madness and, most importantly, sadness. Everything stems from something; no feeling or action can just appear out of thin air. Our film will dive into the lives of all these characters in a way that unifies them all.

This film represents social issues by challenging the stereotypes that all cruel people have always been bad and have zero heart inside their body or mind. These people didn’t grow up as monsters; they slowly became them, and we think it’s important to show people that we decide what path other people go on with our words and actions. It’s usually what ends up driving people to seek cruel and heartbreaking actions to deal with the fact that certain people were never there for them.

Our idea to shoot this question is by interrogating the person being interviewed. We believe it’s an excellent way of combining our film's theme with our Creative Critical Reflection.