I often (read: always) praise movies for their cinematic achievements rather than the story those devices and techniques are used in service of. Most stories miss me, I understand them and they resonate, but their entirety lands in the shallower pools of my soul. The stories that filmmakers tend towards are those that lend themselves most easily to spectacle, rather than devising spectacle to wrap around a story.
3000 Years is a story I loved. I felt it in the deepest,…

The relation between a storyteller and their audience is a lot like the one between parent and child. You are giving them something that they might carry with them for the rest of their life, better or worse, and they will inevitably carry a part of your soul with them forever after your time together.
That’s not a responsibility to be taken lightly.
Some storytellers handle it like a nurturing father (Linkater), some like an abusive figure that you learn…