An Interesting Experience

The film that we watched in class today was rather interesting. Coming from a perspective where the director's goal is to envoke some sort of emotion, and I'm well aware of what that emotion is, I was rather confused on what to feel about "The Man With the Camera". The use of mantage in this film was fascinating. I felt scared when the camera showed the shot of the man laying on the train tracks. I felt that he got smashed for sure. The film was very interesting to look at, and the director had me guessing the whole time as to what exactly he thought I should be feeling at any particular moment.
At one point I almost felt that he saw a director or a camera man as a god almost. One of the repeated shot type, and there were many, was the large man with a camera on top of buildings, making everything else look very small and insignificant. Also the camera man used his lens to distort the buildings and instill fear in the viewers with the train.
It made me feel as if he was demonstrating the different ways a director can distort reality. At least be in god-sized shoes for an hour, making you believe whatever they put up there.
It was an exeperience for sure.
I did find one drawback. The length was a bit much for me. A child of an ADD prone generation. I think 45 minutes of the mantage would have been perfect.