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When I started this blog, the biggest genre/style of film that I struggled with was musicals. I have definitely softened on musicals a great deal, and while a musical is rarely going to be my choice, there are plenty that I like. These days, the style I struggle with the most is found footage. There are certainly some found footage movies, or movies done in real-time online (a rough equivalent of found footage) that I think are great. The problem is that it’s also the style that is most accessible to lazy filmmakers. This being the case, I tend to go into them wary, even when they come with a lot of acclaim, like Noroi: The Curse.
Noroi (which is how I will refer to this from this point forward) is absolutely a found footage movie, but it has the benefit of being a found footage movie with the conceit of having been edited. That sounds like a contradiction, but it truly is not. What we have is a documentary filmmaker noted for explorations of the paranormal and his final work. So we have an edited story that doesn’t have to simply work in real-time or be filmed in order, but with the feel of a found footage movie.
