Sherman's March- In circles

This film, although interesting initially, became a pointless demonstration of obsession and self-pity. McElwee attempts to display himself as the victim throughout the movie, but in reality by putting himself on display, his vanity and self-indulgence are quite evident. He basically gets himself stuck on every girl he meets, regardless of whether they are attractive or not, because he seems to be obsessed with having someone that doesn't want him. As soon as it becomes apparent that they might be into him, he's over it and moves on. This is something that occurs regularly to men and women from all walks of life, regardless to status, age or race.

I think that is what makes his films intriguing to people; the fact that they see some of themselves in him, and the way he kind of puts himself out there for people to judge him is quite admirable. After a while though, it seems kind of like it is going in circles, like "Wait, I think I have seen this before" and everything becomes more predictable. This is the point where some of the footage could have been cut out, which may or may not end up detracting from the movie itself, but that would depend on each person's interpretation of what they would deem to be important to the story or not.

It almost seemed kind of scary the way he was obsessed with some of the girls, by the way he followed them around and filmed their every movement and everything they said. I think most girls would have been creeped-out by this, but the particular girls that he filmed seemed to be very needy and require lots of attention, thus they were the perfect subjects for his creepy obsession. I was really surprised that the first girl's family was so accepting of him, and let him leave with their daughter to Atlanta. I also thought it was really weird how the girl was telling him that she wasn’t wearing any underwear and then showing him all those suggestive exercises. It seemed like she was just doing it all for attention, trying to see if she could get a reaction out of him. His only reaction was to continue filming and ogling her, while she enjoyed the attention he was giving her. They enjoyed kind of a symbiotic relationship with each other, because she was getting the attention she was craving and he was able to be a voyour of sorts while watching here perform for him.