Tshiuetin

Tshiuetin, a short documentary about the Tshiuetin rail line, boasts some beautiful black-and-white high-def photography of the kind we should expect in this day and age. The subject matter is interesting, too, the first rail line in history owned by Indigenous peoples. It would be something to learn more about this route, see the regions it connects, and why it's important.

It is novel to see this is one of the few trains that still carries passengers (CPR cut the passenger trains decades ago, aside from the Holiday Train which I actually had the honour of riding one year). But there's the rub: Too much of this doc is spent with the camera pointed down the train aisle, away from any scenery. This gets dull fast, and its viewpoint is rather limited in the interviewee.