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I love the way this is structured

posted 9 years ago by kay_rock
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Small "moments in time" interspersed with long but interesting reminiscences and stories (which seem very embellished and even more endearing because of it) interspersed with these fantasy-daydream-nightmare scenes.

It paints a marvelous picture without just spoonfeeding a story. You get an amazing sense of not only the main characters but the supporting players as well.

Manglehorn isn't always a likeable character but he's a character you want to sympathize with. It's beautiful.

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[–] dbeane 8 years ago

David Green's films are often fairly "atmospheric" in nature, with the story almost a secondary concern.

Not as atmospheric as "Manglehorn" tho - I liked it, but I think it probably stymied some viewers with the narrations layered over visual cross-fades, that made some of the exposition difficult to hear or understand.