Reel Lesson #1: The Nature of Tragedy

If film is the study of life, then film theory is simple philosophy. “Reel Lessons” is an occasional audio feature at www.KUVO.org.  In this lesson, Andrew Craig analyzes the use of light and mood in the film The 33 (2015), and the nature of human tragedy.

“When the miners look at the cave-in, the darkness this scene is suffocating, which makes sense.  The film creates two realms of opposite existence, as if to articulate two emotional extremes.”

Andrew Craig's discussion of light and human tragedy in “The 33.”