Killer of Sheep

Several critics said this was one of the best films of 2007, even though it was made 30 years ago. Several critics were wrong. The director, still in film school, took $10,000 and tried to portray the life of everyday people in Watts in the '70s. It has the look and feel of a documentary, as if the director went up to people and said, "Do what you're doing and I'll film it." But to construct a film out of such circumstances is an inherently worthless enterprise. Better would have been to make an actual documentary, without forcing people to say dialogue that doesn't go anywhere because there's no story in the first place. If there is a story, it's about a man named Stan, who kills sheep. It follows him, his family, and his friends, through their day-to-day struggles in poverty. There's no story, just different scenes of their daily life. You can respect someone for making a film with no money, but that doesn't mean you have to respect the movie.