Fragments & Focus

LATEST POSTS

When Mystery Illuminates (and When It Doesn’t) When used with care, ambiguity can become one of cinema’s most powerful tools.…

Ambiguity, Misdirection, and Concealment in Cinema What we don’t know in a film often matters more than what we do.…

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau Like the impressionists, I’m drawn…

No Country for Old Men begins as a Western but unravels into something colder. It becomes a story where logic…

Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey explore the human condition through alien encounters but diverge in focus. 2001…

I started this blog because I needed a place to sort through the things that stay with me: a film…