Be Kind Rewind
Be Kind Rewind is a paean to creativity and to those that inspire it in ourselves. It can be just a simple bedtime story or the films we watch. Whatever it is it can inspire.
This film follows the path of Cloverfield in making concrete the ideas of the YouTube generation. It is inspired and has inspired other ‘sweded’ films. You can catch a majority of them on internet video sites. Done by creators for simple, simple reasons. Unlike Cloverfield, it does posit that something magical happens when stories are meant to inspire. Cloverfield as a thesis for the YouTube generation inspires people to film their nuts getting kicked; Be Kind Rewind wants you to make your own movie about your nuts getting kicked.
3 of 5 stars.
