"Christmas Eve" - Short Documentary

In my TMA 293 class we watched a short “Christmas Eve” filmed at my professor Dean Duncan’s kitchen. This is only setting the short takes place. He is never in the shots though, if he ever is he covers up the camera. That makes the film even more interesting. The filmmaker is not to alter the picture but let everything else happen before our eyes and to trust the camera, as I said before in one of my other posts. But I think that even of the hecticness of Christmas Eve and people (other than the mom) doing nothing but stuffing themselves, it is great to see people being together as a family to share in that time. There seem to be a lot of extended family present. It fast paces through to get to the idea that the people individually do not really matter in times like Christmas Eve. It is people together. Since people remember more of times spent with others during the Holidays especially, they want to have a place they can call home at least for that time. The mom was the only one during the course that was doing most of the cooking and did not seem to whine about it. That's how moms usually are and can have that genuine desire to entertain others through the joys of food. It is such a beautiful thing.