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God grew tired of us: Review

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Plot
God grew tired us a uplifting informative film that takes us on a journey of 3 gentlemen called the "lost boys of Sudan". 1980 the Sudan people were terrorized from their government while engaging in a Civil war. Cut off from love ones and family, the Sudan boys marched from refuge camps to various locations only to be invited to live in America. The boys must now learn how to adapt to a new atmosphere and culture. 

The "American dream" is a huge focal point in this film. It shows how difficult attaining the American dream is and the boundaries placed on foreigners. The film sucks you with intense images of hardship, and suffering but wins you over with charm, gratification, and leadership. 

Genre
A 2006 documentary film that also has a comedy edge too it. With this film being classified as a documentary I would expect for there to be several interviews. A good documentary should raise more questions than answers. It should have a good analysis of a culture and involves ethnography or politics. With a documentary you have to appreciate their culture and not judge off first impressions. I expect this to be a good documentary if it includes all these points. I believe the comical side was added to suppress the a bigger problem that was accruing. 

Background Information
Directed by: Christopher Dillon Quinn
Produced by: Molly Bradford Pace, Christopher Dillon Pach, and Tom Walker 
Staring: John Dau, Nicole kidman, Daniel Abul Pach, and Panther Bior
Release date; 2006
Language: English
Awards: the film won both the "Grand Jury Prize: Documentary" and the "Audience Award"
Filming locations: High Point, North Carolina, kakuma, kenya, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, New York.
Box Office: Opening weekend $27,076

Documentary and my Evaluation 
There is a lot of hard work put into to making a film like this. The main thing I recognized is this is a true film about real people, and real events. You expect to learn coming into this movie but you can also get emotionally attached to a character. Films like this can have a good cause to society if more films treated other cultures with respect and dignity like this crew. Having live actions shots are also critical to making a good documentary film and catching the moments. I also enjoyed that they filmed in my hometown state Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 Going through my checklist I believe this film does a good justice to describing the Sudan life. This this is a naturalist style when comparing to a documentary mode, most documentary films are naturalist. It has a good narrative and gives the viewer a diverse perspective of life. And I also think they did a good job at showing cultural comparison using diversity. 

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