Wordplay

One of my passions regarding film is documentaries. I love that documentaries focus on real people and the trials and tribulations that they have been through. Wordplay is a documentary about people who competitively compete in crossword puzzles. Much of the documentary is devoted to interviewing Will Shortz who edits the crossword puzzles for the New York Times. One of the most interesting things about him is that he graduated with a degree in puzzle making (enigmatology) from Indiana University, he is the only person from there to hold this degree.

Much of the film is focused on the players and how their crossword fascination began. President Bill Clinton and Jon Stewart were both interviewed and they discussed their feelings regarding crossword puzzles. A topic so simple was so interesting to me people of the way the film was created. It focused on the people competing, how they got there, are if they won what they would hope to do with the fame among other crossword puzzle fans.

Wordplay focuses on a select group of people with an extraordinary talent who, among their peers, are famous in their own right. And yes, the movie has inspired me to start doing crossword puzzles, and yes, they are hard at first and very frustrating, just like the movie says.