At the beginning of the documentary, made by Invisible Children, we get introduced to the narrator, Jason Russell's story about the birth of his son, Gavin. We get introduced to what he likes, for example being in movies and jumping on the trampoline. Then we get told about about the narrator visiting Uganda, Africa to see his friend, Jacob and we see a flashback to see children, including Jacob being forced to sleep on floors and starving. We see an interview between the narrator and Jacob and Jacob tells him he would rather die than live in the future in his country. This particular bit of the documentary made me feel very saddened and upset because nobody should ever live in a world where they would rather die than live, I feel that it's not right. Then we get shown photos of the narrator's journey to keep a promise made by him to Jacob that he was 'going to stop them'. He then gives a message to the audience saying that he needs our help to fulfil the promise he made not to just Jacob, but to the whole of Uganda. We then see almost like an interview between the narrator and his son, Gavin, who knows nothing about Kony or the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army). At first impressions, I believe that children shouldn't hear about war or destruction happening in other countries because they are extremely young and should not get told about current affairs. Gavin's answer is exactly the same as mine: sad. I glad the narrator didn't go on to tell his son how much destruction there is because it wouldn't be right at all. We then get some very distressing images of Kony making children mutilate their own skin which was extremely distressing from an audience's point of view. We got introduced to the International Criminal Court, which deals with finding and executing the world's biggest criminals, Joseph Kony being number 1 on the wanted list. His crimes include murder, sexual slavery, rape etc which, I think, are inhuman crimes. We then see politicians of Uganda, wanting their children back and we see they are willing to contribute with 'any friend of Uganda' to stop the mindless killings caused by Joseph Kony. After, we see Invisible Children being set up, talks being taken, more and more members joining all around the world. The Invisible Children Facebook group and we see a rising figure of how many members joining the group, which, I think, is extremely positive and I felt happy and supportive by what they had done that would benefit thousands of people in Uganda. At the end of the video, the documentary gave us 3 things we need to do. 1= Sign The Pledge To Show Your Support, 2= Get The Bracelet And The Action Kit and 3= Sign Up For Tri To Donate A Few Dollars A Month And Join Our Army For Peace. If you was older enough, aged between 17-18, I would have definitely signed up to join the Invisible Children group and I would have done all 3 pledges. Unfortunately, I was too young to understand what was going on and I saw a lot of Joseph Kony photos but did not know what it was about at all. At the end of the documentary, we get shared a message: SHARE THIS MOVIE ONLINE, which shows that we live in a world where messages need to be shared online which was a rousing success.
I believe that this documentary is extremely effective in the way it coveys its message to capture Joseph Kony. On YouTube, it has reached 100,676,517 views (Friday 18th September 2015) and has had over 1 million likes. I think Invisible Children's social action documentary is extremely effective in the way it conveys its message to share this documentary on sites and social networking services. It is also effective because the documentary shows many countries coming together to fight a cause to capture an evil war lord. It shows what they have been doing around the world, like putting posters up around the world at night time and giving action kits around the world so that they can do something about what they believe in. However, out of 7 billion people, only 7% of the earth's population took part which is very, very little but I think that figure will rise if more people watched this documentary
In my personal opinion, I believe that this social action documentary about 'Kony 2012' is extremely effective and makes me want to do something about the cause. I think this particular documentary will stick in the audience's minds and make them want to do more about the cause, like meeting people in Uganda and joining rallies or marches to get into politician's minds that this needs to be a number 1 priority.
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