I said that one of the great things about film festivals is that you can plan all you want, but things can be changed. After watching Everyone their Grain of Sand, I felt the need to watch Ears, open. Eyeballs, Click. You could ask yourself why would I want to watch a movie about marines going through boot camp after watching a movie on social activism? Because they are both parts of our world--it is reality. We share a border with Mexico, but we are also at war with Iraq. Marine recruits are being trained in our region to fight this war. This documentary was written, produced, and directed by Canaan Brumley. This film about USMC recruits going through 3 months of boot camp was not scripted. Also, the recruits were not asked their opinions or how they felt. We just got to see the experience. In Robert Altman's tradition, Canaan told a story visually. We were voyeurs getting a peek into the process that turns civilians into military killing machines. Ears, open. Eyeballs, click was not a political film. I don't think the marines would have been open to the filming had that been the case. The audience was left to draw its own conclusions. There was no guided narration. Mukul Khurana