Van Sant masterfully mixes documentary style realism with over the top improvised, theatrical Shakespearean outbursts of dialogue interspersed with home-movie dream sequences and Rudy Valle and The Pogues playing on the soundtrack. Through a clever use of provocative characters, poetic dialogue and grounded surrealism, Idaho successfully evokes that state of mind where we become most aware of our human condition.
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Manchester by the Sea
Manchester by the Sea, is an honest portrayal of life as it is lived in the real world. Life with no narrative closure.
Arrival – Part II
“Arrival” assumes that the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is true. It experiments with the idea that if we are indeed limited in our cognitive categories because of our limits in the linguistic categories learning a language that does not share the same linguistic limits might expand our cognitive capabilities.
Arrival
After a parade of stupid films that exist only to please the masses “Arrival” is a breath of fresh air.
