Visual Power: Zero Dark Thirty and Life of Pi
On Friday, in a fit of cinematic excess, I saw two films – first, Kathryn Bigelow’s gritty, controversial Zero Dark Thirty, followed by Ang Lee’s joyous adaptation of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. The two films, although tonally and visually at opposite ends of the spectrum, share several characteristics. Both are long: they clear two […]
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