Sublime

the film’s cast could not come along. So Boggs intended to hire local talent to play the characters originated by actors in Chicago. Motion pictures were still such a new and makeshift medium that audiences, he figured, would never notice the difference.

Christians don’t understand why the people of Hollywood don’t have the same moral or ethical foundation and why they are (they non-Christians are tired of this, yes?) tired of being told how bad and wrong they are.

The film doesn’t tell you that connection. Stanton worked it out, as any viewer would – it showed

Darabont makes all of these men so unbearably evil that we will not rest until we see our hero defeat them.

The conditions of a minimal underground classic—that the shape of a film be discernible in any single frame; that a single-camera strategy be the basis for the movie’s metaphysic and any situation within the film; that the repetitions of the camera, which is always obviously present, creates a spirituality; and that the field of examination be more

But in the world of satisfying stories—her preferred domain—both of Olivia’s parents are so much less than they should have been.