We’re a Twitter site ( http://twitter.com/Hollywood_Tweet ) We watched The Green Rush and it’s time for the REVIEW!
When a film is well made with good camera work, good sound, good direction, you’ll tend to forget all of those things and just focus on the movie’s content. The Green Rush is one of those films. So we’re not going to waste time on the technical aspects other than to say that this is a quality made film. We want to talk on the success or failure of this film as a documentary.
The film, The Green Rush, covers the lives of small pot growers during their seasonal growth and harvest. It doesn’t harp on ideaology or try to convince you to support pot or not, it keeps true to the documentary and focuses on the characters involved. We think The Green Rush is successful as a documentary as it causes you to have an opinion. Regardless whether you feel for the growers or don’t feel for the growers, you’re moved to judge these people based upon your own beliefs and how you see them portrayed.
The reviews and discussions on this film prove this out. Other than the typical rhetoric of “pro-pot” and “anti-pot” tirads that have nothing to do with the film, you have passionate opinions as to whether people think these growers are stupid or to have compassion for them. The fact that you attract both sides of the issue and those people posting their views show the power of the film. If it was all one sided that would prove this is a canned film that no one cares about except what they are spoonfed as so many documentaries do. The Green Rush steps away from that criteria by keeping to the grower’s own words without commentary.
The Green Rush present facts of the medical marijuana issue by interviewing bureaucrats involved on the technical side without stating a pro or con. They keep all opinions of the issue amongst the growers where it belongs. This tactic keeps the film true to its purpose, which is to document these people’s lives, not answer the debate on whether pot is “good” or “bad”. Really good documentaries trust the viewer to come to their own conclusions. Really good documentaries get you to think about your presumptions and question how you feel. Really good documentaries do what this film does and that’s to stir an opinion within yourself that you want others to know how you feel. Luckily, the dynamic environment of Hula.com allows you to see this success for yourself, as the discussions and Reviews are almost as good as watching the film.
We recommend you watch this film. Whether you’re for pot, against pot or could care less about pot, either way, you’re going to be glad you took the time to watch. It’ll cause you to have an opinion. Will it change the opinion you had going in? Probably not. But it will give that opinion a base, a base that is patterned after real lives not a bunch of rhetoric. When you take the time to refine your beliefs all because of some film you watched, then THAT is a successful documentary.
