Cradle Of Civilization

The film I chose to watch for my second film review was Iraq: The Cradle of Civilization. This was episode one in the Legacy documentary series ‘The Origins of Civilization”. The narrator Michael Wood did a phenomenal job showing great visuals of Iraq. The culture presented in the film is focused on the Muslims. The documentary investigates the beginning birthplace of civilization. It explains the creations of the arts, writings and as well as religions. I found this video extremely interesting regarding the history that coincides with biblical stories. It was very cool to see how so many things that came out of the Old Testament come out of the melting pot of Iraq. This film did a great job explaining the history but it definitely could have been better structured. I believe the film is to inform the viewer about the true roots of civilization on a biblical level. The filmed grabbed my attention by opening my eyes to how many things I already knew about before watching the film. The documentary opened by talking about the Garden of Eden and its location in regards to the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates. It was interesting that for the many years I spent growing up in a …show more content…
I often found it very difficult to keep up with things because the narrator would be talking about one topic and then jump to another topic but then come back to the original topic. I just found that extremely hard to keep up with and I think I could have gotten more out of the information if it was organized in a better formation. The speaker also was distracting by how he carried himself while trying to educate the viewers. His apparel blended in with scenery and it was very distracting when it some what looked like he had a floating head. I realize that has nothing to do with the content of the documentary but when it comes to doing a review of the episode as a whole I did find that that took away from the