Strong and Clear leaves little to the imagination

Ok, my last two blogs have been really long, so I'm going to do this one differently. I will list the things I liked about the film, the things I didn't like, and then wrap it up in the most concise way I can.

Things I liked:
1. The way that many shots were long, as in they stayed on one thing for an extended period of time. This lets us really look at what we're shown, and it shows that the director wants us to get certain images in our mind. We see Lin hard at work, the mass of people experiencing the memorial, the simplicity of her original sketches.
2. The part about the memorial, meaning the first half of the movie. This part kept my interest.
3. The way that Lin spoke. She was matter-of-fact, but in a sincere way that made me feel like she was telling me instead of a camera.
4. It wasn't 2 hours long.
5. The music matched her voice, in that it was calming and fit the mood of the memorial (meaning that it was simple and reflective).

Things I didn't like:
1. The part of them movie that wasn't about the Vietnam Memorial. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't necessarily that it didn't hold my attention, it just didn't have to do with Vietnam and that's all that I'm really interested in about her life.
2. That mustached veteran who didn't like her plan.

Well, the main point I suppose I'm going to make is that this seemed to me like 2 films, one about her involvement in the memorial and then her later stuff. I would have liked to see more focus on her memorial, but I suppose that a full-length documentary on it would've been impossible or just less interesting. There didn't really seem to be a reason behind the movie other than just having her talk about the experience and, well, document the whole fiasco. There wasn't really a message that the director seemed to want to portray (at least I couldn't find one, if you did please tell me so I can rewatch this with it in mind... maybe do a second blog about it). Lin obviously had a message she wanted to tell the world with her memorial, but there wasn't much rhetoric involved with her explanation, because she just literally explained it. That's like Kubrick starting Full Metal Jacket by saying "Well, this movie is supposed to show you how war is bad." Now, if I could analyze the memorial itself this would be quite a different blog post, but you watched the film just like I did, so what else could I say about it that Lin didn't already say?