There really isn't much I can say to you guys other than this is a fantastic film to watch. I've found it quite unusual compared to other documentaries I've seen, because there's a lot of emotion involved as the film's director knows the subject matter personally; he was one of his close friends.
But rest assured, this film really is a documentary. It is intended to serve as a video letter about Andrew Bagby, who died under tragic circumstances, for his young son Zachary. This is achieved by conducting interviews with Andrew's close friends, family, classmates, and other people whose lives he touched. As with many eulogies the film paints him in a positive light, and he may not be as nice as everyone put him out to be, but you still get that he was a pretty nice guy nevertheless. But to say that the film ends there is an understatement. Lots of twists and turns happen along the way and the movie that you see at the end will not be the movie you expected to see at the beginning.
The film was probably made to be a private one, made on virtually no budget at all. Other than some other minor technical hiccups, I'm not a big fan of some of the fast MTV style cuts that happens. It's in the slower, more measured interviews that the film gains its greatest strength. It's in these purely human feelings of love, regret, sadness, hate, and joy that we get a true glimpse of who this guy really was.
Watch it. It will be hard to sit through, but it's one of those movies that will change you and haunt you long after its done.
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