Chronicle - The Best Mockumentary In Years!
(2012) ★★★★☆ ‘Chronicle’ is the most ingenious and thought-provoking mockumentary I’ve ever seen in years. With superb editing skills, sound and visual effects, it tells a gripping story of 3 teenagers gaining super power after exploring a deep hole in the ground and getting exposed to some sort of radiation generated by a seemingly alien thing. Well… it doesn’t really matter what it is. The focus of this film is on how they deal with their super power afterwards, and what it brings to them in the end. You know what? If I were them, no way I’d get down that hole in the first place! There’re two memorable sequences in the film. One shows three of them flying up in the sky playing football excitedly. It’s like one of our dreams, isn’t it? I felt kind of jealous at first but then I heard one of them shout, ‘it’s freezing up here.’ Right, how could I forget about that? Being able to fly up high isn’t really a good thing after all. You have to consider how to keep warm every time y...