I've developed an allergy to the word "storytelling." It's worth talking about movies in functionalist terms (motivation, etc.) because that's how a lot of moviemakers think, but we also need a critical vocabulary for movies that "work" in a diagrammatic sense and still suck.
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Replying to @SeanRMoorhead
Shane Carruth, director of Primer and Upstream Color
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Replying to @jackfruitstaken
Right, but is this a problem he's talked about or a problem you have with his movies?
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Replying to @SeanRMoorhead
Oh, second one. Maybe I misunderstood your point but I think his movies are carefully written, well shot, characters are coherent etc but nonetheless they fail because the narrative in the moment takes a backseat to the process of piecing everything together after the fact
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Ah, okay. I was thinking more about the paint-by-numbers aspect of the Marvel movies.
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That would be a good point except that the MCU cycle is a masterpiece of cinema unparalleled in our time.
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