Review of Tower (2016) by Brunovn00 — 11 Jan 2020

Tower is a masterfully crafted documentary. A totally unique experience. This stands out from many documentaries because it presents the events in a very stylized way. If you somehow think that rotoscoping is a lazy way of doing animation, I'm sorry to tell you that you are wrong, because rotoscoping is actually very hard and time consuming. It is nice to see this documentary benefit from the animation to give the audience a different visual experience. As a documentary, it does a really good job in making the audience connect with the people affected by this tragedy. Like someone else said in this site: "It focuses more on the humanity and less in the killer" and I agree.

My only issue with the movie is that there isn't too much animation in the second half of the movie. When the movie gets closer to the end it starts using more live action footage of the actual people interviewed and also starts to reuse animated footage and we don't get that many unique animated scenes. It's a very short movie and, while I don't want to call the movie "Lazy" because it definitely isn't, I felt that it was kinda of a letdown that I started to see less and less unique animated sequences.

Regardless, this is a very unique documentary and you should check it out.