Summary: This is one of the things which makes MIFF and experience that is hard to explain and why I have been going for the last 3 years. Having the director and a few of the people involved with the filming in the cinema along with 90% of the sell out crowd being New Zealanders. Watching it in this environment, you could hear them getting very emotional, and it gave this film another dimension. Experiencing this film with people sitting next to me who grew up in the city of Christchurch, how they started getting emotionally involved with the movie, you could not help but feel it.
This movie is not just about the destructive powers of mother nature and what it can do to man made cities, but about how people pull together after these major events. The spirit of the Kiwis from all across the country, coming together and helping out their fellow comrades. Not only the Kiwis, but nations from all around the world, providing specialized teams to help out.
Same of the footage of the film, was also shoot while the second and third major earthquakes were happening, so you really got to experience and see what it must of been like.
Pros: Unique viewpoints of the destructive power of mother nature, while it happens and just after seeing the damage. Seeing people work together. Having the experience of seeing it at MIFF with that emotional audience.
Cons:
Links: MIFF When a City Falls
Rating: 3.5/5
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