I really enjoyed the view into the African tribe we saw in last weeks screening. It was an interesting perspective to take on something that would normally be presented in a very dry, history book sort of way. Also, she clearly made her stand as a woman filmmaker, focusing her film mainly around the women and their roles in life in the tribe. She emphasized how important they were to survival and overall I thought the film had a nice effect.

The second film was a little more depressing than the first. The storyof the daughter always trying to please her father, and his stern, and often cruel responses to her was something that made you sympathetic toward the unnamed girl. I thought it was interesting of Friedrich to include the poems written by the father, it was as if she was trying to vindictively show the fathers cruelty, but still wanted to demonstrate his more humane side and prove that there were things that made him the way he was, and he wasn't all bad, just certain things he did to her were. I also thought the idea of using the ABC's helped the film have that feeling of childhood and naivety, especially with the inclusion of the song at the end, acting as almost an epilogue to the whole thing.