Three Minute Review Title: Flag Wars Host: Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras Plot:  A neighborhood becomes gentrified, with a fight Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras have done an interesting ninety minute documentary titled Flag WARS. Being a odd participant in Gentrification, as a black man in an interracial relationship in a stoic neighborhood, surrounded by two ethnic ghettos (Latino and a Asian Blend), one stabilized and reclaimed (not quite gentrified, as it was a dilapidated white area) neighborhood of high value and a intricate highway system in Atlanta, I am in a interesting position as a opinionated audience member. Flag Wars is pretty good, a bit strange, it's slant seems (?)to be anti gentrification (I am personally mixed about gentrification) and does not seem to show enough of both sides, but it is an interesting story about a community going through an identity crisis. Production qualities, as far as cinematography goes are ok at best. Occasionally, bouncing between different video formats, from seemingly good quality, but sub minidv quality (great natural lighting though) and occasionally looking like they might of caught some footage with a camera ball and a laptop running on battery juice. The film is not a great joy to the eyes, but it's personal tale is enough to keep you watching and the audio is always sharp. Two hours previously, I was watching the Steven Segal and Kenan Ivory Wayans masterpiece The Glimmer Man, it was kinda ok, in that, sitting at the couch, writing and being distracted occasionally by the idiot box kinda way, so getting in on with Flag Wars was cool. If you don't know anything about Gentrification, or if you only know it in that watercooler chat kinda way, here is a way to learn about it from a human perspective. What other compliment can you give to a little film like this.

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