Family Values

Family Values a film about a lesbian couple who decided to lift the burden of cleaning up crime scenes in people’s homes. This film was very enjoyable. The director (Eva Saks) used one of my favorite techniques in film. Instead of showing the body parts and pieces that they are picking up it show where everything was and the fluids. That may seem just as gross to some people but, I feel that the things that aren’t shown in a film are truly the worse images. The reason being that the director can let the audience form their own visions of the object. So for the people like myself who have a good imagination we can create sometime in our head that fill in the void that is left by the director.

Other then that this film was not really to appealing, the film centered solely on what their business was. Which was a good idea but it could have been put together far better then it was. It was mentioned that they were lesbian a few times in the film but that had no real reason to be in the film, most viewers don’t care what a persons sexual orientation is.

The film being shot in black and white makes it all the better because (coming back to imagination again) I can picture the colors around the room from previous experiences with other film and tell exactly how gory the crime scene really is and appreciate these people a lot more because of their work environment.