Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna is a documentary tribute by director Rachel Mason dedicated to her late friend, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The film serves as both a memorial and an exploration of Hutchins' tragic death on the set of the film Rust. Despite previous media coverage of the incident and its aftermath, Mason aims to provide depth to Hutchins' character rather than reducing her to a mere headline. The documentary critiques the commercial nature of filmmaking, the negligence of on-set safety, and highlights the influence of cost-cutting and nepotism in hiring inexperienced crew members.
The portrait of who Hutchins was in life remains a sketchy outline, not much more than the description one might chisel on a gravestone.
Mason was informed that there was more commercial value in a movie that focused on the incident itself.
The reasons she was on set in the first place are so commonplace as to be mundane: cost-cutting and nepotism.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, an inexperienced armorer, seems far younger than her 24 years and allowed a shocking breach of on-set safety.
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