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Re: You probably dislike Pollock or other

Wrong.

If one comes with all these pre-judgments, i.e. no narration, no time-looping, well...why stop there?

Don't disparage. Read my posts. I don't like most narration because on the whole I find it to be a short-cut that undercuts the inherent dramatic strength of the medium. I think that sometimes it's used well; but much of the time it isn't and often it's outright redundant and functions to the detriment of or with little faith in what's on screen. That's not a pre-judgement.

As for my objection to the film's "time-looping": they're specific to this film. Don't generalize. You're arguing with a straw-man.

Let's eliminate all artistic variations and be left with ONE way to interpret "reality."

Yikes! Again, my criticism is of this particular film, not all films that would employ its style. You or the director can claim that the stylistic choice interprets reality in a particular way. What I'm saying is that I don't think the style makes good on that claim. My visceral response to the film's structure, when the film had come to an end, was that it was unnecessarily fragmented and that that fragmentation amounted to a trick suggesting additional depth that the actors might have provided by themselves had they not had to share the stage with it. I've yet to be convinced otherwise.

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