Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
by Kurt Kuenne
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Actor: Kurt KuenneDirector: Kurt Kuenne
Brand: Oscilloscope Laboratories
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Oscilloscope Laboratories
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DVD Reviews of Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
DVD Review: Chops a Tragedy into Cole Slaw
Summary: 3 Stars
All the jump cuts, quick cuts, and voice-overs used to tell the true-life tragedy here - don't work for me. It ends up like a dish of cole slaw. I was almost going to give this film just 2 stars, but I bumped it up to 3 stars after a second viewing made the story clearer to me, and out of deference to the amateur filmmaker's sincere attempt to tackle such a serious subject.
However, if I hadn't read the DVD jacket, I would have been hard-pressed to tell what this film was about. It starts with a rapid-fire succession of talking heads lamenting - a friend - the life of the party - cool guy. What happened? Who? Even with the advance notice given by the DVD jacket, it still took me at least 15 minutes to start to get the drift of what crime this documentary was narrating.
Then later in the film, the use of an additional technique introduced some misplaced humor on top of the confusion. A still picture of one or two Canadian officials was shown, but their mouths were made to digitally move in rhythm with the background reading of some rapid-fire quotes attributed to them. Of course this was no doubt meant to emphasize the inanity of their response to the murders, but instead it can just come off as one of those comic "interviews" Conan O'Brien has used in his opening segments - an interview with the still photograph of some goofily mouth-moving public figure.
Through all this hectic hail of snippets, it's hard to get to know the victims. Only in the DVD bonus materials did I feel I finally got to know Andrew Bagby a little. These extras at last include a concerted view of him as he was recorded giving a wedding toast and then narrating a humorous camping incident.
Almost no effort is made to introduce us to the perpetrator at all, other than through a few presaging remarks made by the victims' family members regarding some inappropriate behavior they'd noticed. It's true that the theme of this movie is not the crime itself, but the shocking opacity of some parts of the Canadian legal system - a system that repeatedly allowed a dangerous person to go free. Still, I'd liked to have gotten to know both victims and perpetrator in a more concentrated, involving way.
In short, this documentary takes an MTV video approach. If that style of presentation clicks with you, you'll get something out of this film. If however, you prefer the slower, more chronological narrative style of most of the true-crime presentations on TV, you'll probably find much of this film unintelligible and distracting.
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Studio: Oscilloscope Pictures Release Date: 02/24/2009 Run time: 95 minutesBestsellers in DVD
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