Reflection on War Dance

Overall, I really like this documentary. The story is amazing. Although this documentary is a bit too long, the director has done a beautiful narrative story, which was based on true event, happened in Uganda at the time when the country was confronting with rebellion and civil war.

The film portraits horrified stories of three child victims of civil war, and amazingly the director links the story with hope and spirit for the future through music and dance. It makes the story thrill, horrified but at the same time it makes audiences believe and have hope for the future of the three children. 

It also portraits the country’s tradition and culture that play an important role in bonding people together to share hope and belief. The documentary director has done an amazing job portraying Ugandan culture and tradition by embedding music and dance along the whole documentary.

The cinematography is outstanding. This documentary presents a lot of amazing footages of Uganda in both hard time (war) and beautiful time. The cinematography director manages to capture Uganda's war zone, which I don’t know whether it just a reenactment or real time footages. It helps this documentary to look so real and catch audience attention to the documentary. And at the time, this documentary also shows a lot of beautiful footages of countryside, families and individual, which nicely portrait lives of Ugandan people. Last but no least, it also show many beautiful natural landscapes in Uganda as well.

The documentary theme song and music are wonderful and unique. They are really fit to the documentary. I don’t know Ugandan language nor the meaning of the song, but I can feel that the music and songs somehow convey the meaning both in hard time and cheerful mode which were perfectly fit to the situation in the documentary.

The main actors of this documentary also have done an amazing job. The director used the three kids’ live to present the documentary. And those kids were really good at acting in front of the camera. They acts very natural and normal just like what people do in their daily live. Those kids were good at doing narration good. Their tone, their facial expression and emotion were all shown in the documentary, which made this documentary powerful and real.