Watching “Street Fight” last Tuesday was an eye opening experience to the world that is politics. The documentaries that I’ve usually watched all seemed to be just someone narrating or being interviewed, but Curry’s documentary “Street Fight” was somewhat different. I didn’t really get the sense that anything was being narrated. I felt as though Curry used his camera to really capture and expose to the public a controversial event, which just happened to be an election for mayor of  Newark. I liked Curry’s style of doing documentaries because exposing reality as opposed to being told what happened by a narrator makes the documentary feel more “real”. I think that with this style of documentary, the audience can actually feel the excitement and disappointment of the main character(s).

The movie itself was pretty interesting. The movie basically showed what happened “behind the scenes” as the election for mayor of Newark approached. Curry did a great job at showing Cory Booker’s excitement and disappointment as well as Sharpe James lying personality. The movie showed how tense things can get between candidates for a mayor election and probably for any other political election. It showed how one candidate tries to tarnish the other candidate’s name and how lying can be used to manipulate people to be on your side when voting time comes.