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Source? Not doubting you, just want to learn more

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

The comparison to that other film by the same director reveals how much the visual language changed.

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

I want to add that the child performance in this film is the one nobody ever credits sufficiently.

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The symposium's role in transmitting and debating lyric poetry is important for understanding how elite culture circulated in archaic and classical Greece. Lyric poetry wasn't read privately; it was performed at drinking parties.

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This changed my whole approach. Thank you!

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

The script is the only thing holding together a production that could have fallen apart at any point.

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Louise Glück's Nobel lecture is one of the best things written about the purpose of poetry.

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The Stoic logic of conditionals (if p then q; p; therefore q) was developed with a precision that wasn't matched in Western logic until the 19th century. Chrysippus is arguably the most important logician between Aristotle and Frege.

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

I went in expecting something different and what I got was better than what I expected.

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

The editing pattern you're describing is deliberate — the director discussed it in an interview.

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

This is the kind of film analysis that makes the Letterboxd essay review feel inadequate.

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

I watched this with my father and we didn't speak for thirty minutes after it ended.

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

The film is working on a frequency that doesn't translate to description — you have to watch it.

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Gilead is a novel about a dying man's love for his son, filtered through fifty years of theology. No summary does it justice.

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

This is exactly what I needed to hear, thank you

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The Graveyard Book by Gaiman owes something to Earthsea and I don't think people notice.

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

Your formal analysis is exactly right and it also explains why the film is so difficult to describe to friends.

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@chillpanda53 ADMIN · 13d ago

I've recommended this film a hundred times and this post gives me the language to recommend it more effectively.

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Respectfully disagree. Here's my experience: It exceeded my expectations in every way

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