Sour Death Balls

The film I would like to look at is Sour Death balls, by Jessica Yu.
     This film manages to capture a beautiful sense of humanity within it's shaky frames. The art of the documentary is something very unique, and that is not often explored, because it is an obvious approach to our viewing humans. Documentary are, after all, simply about capturing human life. We think it's too simple, or too easy to just document humans to capture their essence. All the same, how better to capture part of the human spirit than by the simple documentation of people's reactions?
Not just a general reaction, but a specific reaction. We taste something sour.
     When humans taste something sour, it transcends culture. It transcends race, and it transcends gender.
Sour is sour. And we all know the faces that people make when they are given something sour. We pucker our lips, and we squint our eyes. It doesn't matter how old you are, or where you come from, it's one of many universal reactions.
     This is what makes this film truly beautiful. It seems to usher us into this feeling of being human, and seeing that as humans we are all connected in so many ways.
There is so much beauty in the simple, and in the humanness of it all. Sometimes we so easily over look it, we don't take the time to see it.
     By documenting it, Jessica Yu has managed to capture one small sliver of the human experience, and make it last.