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DominicCobb
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25-Mar-2017, 1:26 AM

Handman said:

TV’s Frink said:

As far as I can see it’s 60 minutes of some guy talking about Garfield. Unless I’ve missed something, how is that a movie?

It’s a commentary on our post modern world, setting its sights on the very idea of criticism with biting irony and satire, without a hint of sarcasm that so often befalls other works of parody. It employs actors, production design, uses the entire Philip Glass score for Kundun, and in a similar vein to Best Picture winner Birdman and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, uses a single, unbroken take. It’s production values are high enough to be considered a professional effort, I don’t know what to really call it if not a movie, it is certainly art of some kind.

Seems more like some sort of video essay? I mean the concept of “movie” is a rather nebulous term so technically you could apply it to all manner of videos. That doesn’t mean you should, though.

And, though I’m sure you know, neither Birdman nor Rope is really a single, unbroken take.