Unlike most of the film,this latest superhero instalment is not a dream. It is really happening to youI haven’t been a full-time film critic since 2011, and in my free time these days I mostly watch Canadian domestic remodelling shows and listen to audiobooks for 12-year-frail girls, and so possibly I’m just out of the loop. Did we halt making movies with characters and plots? Has the film-going public lost their taste for yarn arcs wherein characters who have earned our investment do interesting,new things that make sense? Has the definition of “film” changed from “motion picture yarn that a human wrote on purpose” to “700 only tangentially related 12-moment grey and red vignettes”? Because I’ve just come from Batman v Superman, which isn’t a film in any sense that I’m familiar with, and but rather 153 minutes of a grown man whacking two dolls together,with character profiles ranging from “depressed statue to “depressed explosion”.
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Source: theguardian.com