Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón

I just got home from the movie theater!
I went to see "Gravity" by Alfonso Cuarón. It was CRAZY.
The movie primarily follows the story of Ryan Stone (played by Sandra Bullock). She and Matt Kowalski (played by George Clooney) are astronauts, among a couple others, currently researching in outer space. A disaster occurs and they are thrown out into the abyss of space, spinning uncontrollably, with nothing to hold onto and no way to control their direction. Stone and Kowalski trek across space to survive, and Stone learns a lot about herself and about life along the journey.

Cuarón did such a great job of creating an experience that seemed completely realistic to space. Never having been in space, I unconditionally believed in Cuarón's version of it. When there was no oxygen for Kowalski and Stone to breathe, I held my breath with them. The whole 3D experience of the movie (in all its zero-gravity glory) made it difficult for me to move my legs once the movie was over, as though I was encountering gravity once again after a trip to space. I really loved how the movie had no manipulation of time, as movies usually do (cutting to an hour later, or flashing back in time). Everything was happening right now, and it felt real.

I absolutely loved this movie! In fact, I think I will go see it again...

Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder

Last night I watched an old film noir called Sunset Boulevard. It was directed and co-written by Billy Wilder. It was also co-written by Charles Brackett.
I absolutely loved it! I think it's my favorite film noir I've ever seen. It had very interesting visual ideas, and it also had a great story.

It was told in first-person from the perspective of an unsuccessful Hollywood writer names Joe Gillies who is played by William Holden. Out of luck and owing money to the bank, Gillies needs a place to hide his car from the bank collectors he is indebted to. He finds a seemingly abandoned mansion with an empty garage and decides to stash his precious car[go] there. He also plans to stay there until he doesn't have to worry about the bank. It soon becomes apparent that the house is not abandoned. It is, in fact, inhabited by an old silent-movie starlet named Norma Desmond, who Gillies says "used to be big". She responds with one of my favorite lines ever: "I am big, it's the pictures that got small."
Once Norma finds out that Gillies is a writer, she shows him a script she's been working on, which Gillies says is terrible. Norma, however, asks him to edit it and fervently requests for him to stay in the mansion with her. He obliges, but it soon becomes apparent that Norma has an obsession with him, with reliving her fame and youth, and with the movie industry. The movie documents her insanity and the insanity of Hollywood quite well, and is, in the end, very unsettling. I loved it.

documentary treatment

"Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record."

For my documentary short film, I'd like to explore someone's world for a brief amount of time. I specifically want to do this by exploring their bedroom and having them explain their favorite things about it and about themselves. 
This documentary series would be an expository one. I will interview the subjects, but edit the footage so that it seems like they are just speaking to the viewer.
This has been done before, but what would make my film different would be the fact that it will not focus on personal style or aesthetic as much as it will focus on stories and more of an interview-pretending-to-be-a-room-tour. The interviewee's words will be accompanied by visions of the objects and images they choose to surround themselves with in their most comfortable and safest of spaces. I do not want this to be a forceful exploration, but rather one where the subject is inviting the viewer in.