Tom Cruise may be getting close to hanging it up; but not today, OpinionNerds.
One of the most satisfying aspects about movies is how they are able to operate on so many levels at once. They can entertain and inform, move and inspire, comfort and challenge. Any filmmaker can pull from any or all of these elements, layering them together into a sumptuous, sensual ambrosia of storytelling that will impact different people in different ways. But all of that relies on choices made by people about what they want to emphasize and what they want the audience to come away with. Given the choice, some filmmakers will defer to a certain kind of entertainment value over other storytelling considerations. There is certainly nothing wrong with this approach, but it is worth questioning at what point the desire to please the audience and have them leaving…
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The Amateur Storyteller 