#Anne Frank Parallel Stories

But why the emo girl? She added nothing to the movie.

I started to watch this but had to turn it off - I found the whole student going on the journey and her awful instagram posts and cringeworthy hash tags crass and distracting.

The scenes felt shoe horned in to probably to try and be seen as credible in today's day and age where the "kids" use phones all day long but actually ruined what was (other than those points) poignant and informing.

Shame.

Is this a docu-drama or an exercise in cinematography? The camera work is superb! But it's overdone and too "artsy-dartsy" for a film of this type. It's also far too long. Nor do I understand how Helen Mirren fits in. She is a favourite of mine. But there seems little point in having her (or anybody else) do an on camera narration. Nor, unlike the original movie, this film would be a confusing mystery to anybody not familiar with Anne Frank's story or the grim history of the period.

I saw this a couple nights ago and enjoyed it very much. I particularly liked Helen Mirren's dramatic readings from the diary as well as hearing from Anne's contemporaries and their children/grandchildren, which makes you wonder "what if" she had been able to hold on a couple more months. Many pictures were incorporated that I've never seen before. Something that didn't work for me was the "modern girl" with the Twitter handle "KatherineKat". Since Anne was writing to a fictional "Kitty", this seems to be Kitty writing back and presumably was a modern day equivalent of a diary but using social media instead. Whereas Anne could expound in her diary, a tweet was by it's nature quite limited. I found that aspect a little annoying, but I suppose younger audiences might well have enjoyed it.

Overall it's a wonderful movie, they could of done without the teenage girl hash tagging and posting pics on instagram. I don't know if the the producers approach was to reach younger audiences, but it seemed out of place and somewhat annoying.

Overall good film to watch.