I wasn't asleep.. I was closing my eyes to visualize a better movie...

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         From "Deadly Sins: Mother's Little Killers" all the way to "How to Get Away With Stealing", I have seen many documentaries in my short-lived life. I began watching documentaries when the Pretty Little Liars' episodes became repetitive. Not only because of that but also because in my Psychology class in high school we were required to watch one documentary at the end of every week and relate it back to one of our classroom discussions.

         My favorite documentary is "The Secret Life of The Brain". Ever since I was little I had always been interested and fascinated with the brain and its many hats. So interested that my entire family thought I would go on to be a brain surgeon or a neuropsychologist. Yet, here I am, undecided as a sophomore trying to figure out what degree to pursue that will allow me to work in the many fields I am interested in.

         In my opinion, using documentaries as subject matter can help me as writer because it gives enough structured flexibility. By that I mean I'm allowed to pick a documentary of my choice, one that interests me, or that I have totally seen before and will make writing about it that much easier, or one that I have researched and definitely know that I won't agree with can again make writing about it so much easier.

         For instance, earlier in the week we very briefly discussed Black Fish, some people had seen the documentary and genuinely seemed interested. On the other hand some had never heard of it and couldn't care less about it. The point I'm getting at is if you were to assign us all the same documentary, Black Fish, and tell us to write about it some responses would be fantastic and well thought out, while other responses may be brief and not as much effort would have been put fourth. By allowing us to choose a documentary of our own choice I think our personal papers will be very good because we're choosing something that interests us rather than something chosen for us.

         I watched "Project NIM", for those of you interested in psychology, sociology, or social work for that matter should definitely give this documentary a chance. I was fascinated from start to finish which made writing about the documentary a breeze. In my paper I touched briefly on the topic of "the forbidden experiment" if any of you are familiar with that term. I think that getting to pick the documentary really allowed me to include my interests and concerns in the paper. I felt like I was writing because I wanted to, not because I needed to reach a certain length requirement and that was a good feeling!