Narrative Response

            For my Narrative film, I watched The East. This was recommended to me by one of my friends that go to a very environmentally friendly school who thought it was interesting to see a movie that depicted people with similar views to hers but on an extremist end. So I thought it would be good to watch it.

            The film was surprisingly well done. Most independent films do not have a lot of fancy props or extravagant scenes, but this movie could have easily been mistaken for being a normal Hollywood studio film. There were no dramatic action scenes, but there didn’t need to be. There was no plot point that required a violent or special effect filled scene.

            The main character I also found interesting. She was a very normal acting girl with a normal personality. She is seen enjoying many common things like fast food and hotel rooms. Her job is one of the only things that are unusual. She is a private investigator for a company that helps gather information to sign clients. She infiltrates a terrorist cell that attacks companies for not being environmentally friendly and the cell is full of extremist hippies.

            Slowly as the movie progresses she becomes more and more like the hippies she’s with. She starts eating food out of the trash, she becomes comfortable with other people bathing her and living in the woods. This film was very interesting and engaging. I really enjoyed seeing this kind of extremist people that I didn’t know anything about.