>> It might be more interesting to see how close this actually >>gets to a conventional narrative film; unless I'm mis-remembering the last >>third or so practically abandons the fake documentary idea and could easily >>have been filmed slick, mounted-camera style without changing the effect of >>the film. in terms of narrative structure this is certainly true, though i suspect that the post post-lude ["six months later"]-- or at least some parts of the post-lude -- is just goofy enough to be atypical of the kinds of narrative implication that generally shapes stories with a conventional beginning-middle-end trajectory mike ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu