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Tag: Brokenness

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Seven stories we keep telling

By Tony Watkins31 July 201516 January 2019 Categories: Bible, Film Tags: Bible, Biblical Metanarrative, Brokenness, Christopher Booker, Creation, Decreation, Film, Freedom, Literature, Mike Cosper, narrative, Stories, themes

Over the course of around twenty years of analysing films, books and other media, I have often been struck at the ways in which storytellers keep telling the same kinds of tales over and over again. That’s not to say that the narratives they construct are inevitably wearied or hackneyed; far from it. There is extraordinary diversity in the way that the themes have been explored. Yet, it remains the case that, under the surface, most if not all stories are versions of a limited number of key themes.

Fixing the world: Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Tony Watkins31 July 20144 February 2017 Categories: Film Tags: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Brokenness, Environment, Families, Fathers, Films, Keswick Convention, Keswick Unconventional, Poverty, Quvenzhane Wallis, Reconciliation

Beasts Of The Southern Wild Day four of the Keswick Unconventional Film Club found us watching Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin’s extraordinary magic realist film, which is unlike any other I can think of. During or after our discussion yesterday evening, one person compared aspects of it to Terrence Malick’s The Tree of…

Discovering the brokenness of the world

By Tony Watkins26 March 201526 January 2017 Categories: Film Tags: Brokenness, Childhood, Film, nostalgia, Wes Anderson

I’ve just come across this fascinating and insightful quote by film critic Michael Chabon, in the introduction to Matt Soller Seitz’s The Wes Anderson Collection, about the brokenness of the world: The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice…

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