This blog is becoming an interesting bridge between academic culture and internet culture. That being said, I have observed that most of us are using, appropriately, academic language to talk discuss these films. I believe this is appropriate and has naturally evolved this way because we are in fact in academia and are indeed discussing points that deserve this language. However, I want to propose using some methods that are more common to internet culture as tools to navigate through this thick discourse. Feel free to let me know if you think this is inappropriate or not needed:

I propose we use TL;DR at the end of really dense comments. TL;DR is short hand for 'too long; didn't read' and on many internet forums it is used as a summarizing tool to propel conversation. For example, after a long and well written post (that many of you have provided thus far, merci!) at the very end I would put:

TL;DR, Kossakovsky keeps his camera removed from most of the scenes, thus allowing us to read the scenes as authentic documentary. His use of sound however, takes the film in a fictional direction and takes away from this authenticity of image.

It is basically just laying out your thesis or the main bullet points of your discussion so that conversations can bud more quickly. It isn't meant to prevent people from delving into or reading your whole comment, but mearly provides a conceise launch point for discussion.

Let me know your opinions!