Assignment #6: Critiquing a Media Critic

        Since we have been quarantined in our homes for the last year, people have had nothing but time to catch up on movies and crazy reality television. Now that people have been home and have more time to focus on the small things or the bigger things in these films. I enjoy YouTube for a plethora of things, one of which being watching critics review films especially some that may be trending online for being good or bad. I typically like to watch these reviews after I've already watched the movies or series so that I can find things that I may have missed. One of my favorite influencers to watch that I would also classify as a media critic is Evelyn Ngugi. 

        She is typically known by her screen name Evelyn From the Internet, she started her YouTube journey back in 2007. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 2011 with a Bachelor’s in Journalism with an emphasis in Magazines. Evelyn started her YouTube to help her find her place in the world and media as a black woman full of creativity and ideas. She is known to critique topics or things that she sees in the media, products, and films, or tv shows. She utilizes her platform to share her life experiences and journeys, as she continues to navigate through her life as a young woman of color. I enjoy the things that she puts out via her platform because she adds her young and comical element to her critiques. 

        One of my favorite film reviews that she has done was over a movie entitled Fatal Affair. The movie was released by Netflix in July of 2020. This particular movie was trending on the media soon after its release, not so much because it was the stellar overall performance. Now it was not that I enjoyed the film, thus making the review so good but the fact that she was so real in her review and that she brought up points that I too noticed when I watched the film. She took note of how the majority of the scenes were transitional and viewers were not allowed to take in a scene for long. Having taken film courses, I have heard about the importance of there being variety in the scene types within a work. She also brought up how the film left viewers with lots of unanswered questions, and how having additional characters with no purpose within the storyline only added to that. The main character had a daughter and the daughter had a boyfriend that only had four lines in the whole film and the characters could have been cut out altogether and it would not have changed the storyline. I agreed with her on the fact that the main characters are great at what they do, but the writing of the film seemed like more of an issue. She touched a subject that I too have mentioned before, about the fact that there several other movies that are the exact same. Films like Obsessed, The Intruder, The Perfect Guy, No Good Deed, When The Bough Breaks, and now Fatal Affair can be added to the list are all similar and people took to social media ranting about watching more variety in the films featuring black leads. All of these films have strong black male and female leads who either deal with being stalked by a stranger or a mistress. I agreed with her and said many of the same things. I believe that I enjoy her perspective as a media critic because I get to see someone who is young and looks like me give her perspective on various things in the media and come up with my conclusions after doing further research.