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March 14, 2022 by ashtoncm

The Vietnam war protest film, Inextinguishable Fire, is a documentary style critique of the Vietnam war and the role of the industry in the production of chemically toxic weapons as it is a film documenting the destruction caused by the Napalm bombs. In the first clip which is at 2:22, The camera starts with a close up of the narrators arm, with emphasis on the burns from napalm. With a cross-cut shortly after the close up of the narrator, the audience is transitioned to a point of view shot of a torch lighting something on fire, violently, and the narrator talks over the flame saying “It is almost impossible to extinguish”, “if it is extinguished, it is almost always too late.”  then shows a zoom in close up of a soot and ash which is all that is left of the napalm. What makes the clip so powerful is showing the audience how destructive and permanent the damage from war can be. This clips purpose is to project fear and consciousness around the true realities of war and the danger of chemical weapons. My next clip I chose, at 17:37 the audience sees action and movement. A plane is flying in , the camera is placed behind the plane and we watch it fade into the distance to disappear in a faded long shot. Then the plane reappears, in a cross cut, flying parallel to the camera. Then in another cross cut the screen moves to eye level shot of a plane flying over a field and transitions to the camera shooting inside the plane giving the audience the allusion they are in the plane. There is a close up of chemicals. coming out of the plane, with zooming in with a close up on the hand of the pilot releasing all the chemicals onto the enemy field. The common theme of these two clips is war distruction.


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