http://bethestory.com/2006/03/30/spotlight-smillas-sense-of-snow-the-movie the blog about writing stories and being a better writer Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:35:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://bethestory.com/2006/03/30/spotlight-smillas-sense-of-snow-the-movie#comment-110 be the story » The Storyteller and the Wordsmith Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:01:10 +0000 http://bethestory.com/2006/03/30/spotlight-smillas-sense-of-snow-the-movie#comment-110 [...] If you want both the storyteller and the cinematographer, check out Citizen Kane, The Godfather, or Smilla’s Sense of Snow. For the last, see my spotlight earlier this week. The plot starts to get weird near the end, but Siskel and Ebert gave the film “two thumbs up,” because even though things get preposterous, you don’t care! You’ve already been drawn into the story, into the life of this character, and even a ridiculous plot twist can’t pull you out. [...] […] If you want both the storyteller and the cinematographer, check out Citizen Kane, The Godfather, or Smilla’s Sense of Snow. For the last, see my spotlight earlier this week. The plot starts to get weird near the end, but Siskel and Ebert gave the film “two thumbs up,” because even though things get preposterous, you don’t care! You’ve already been drawn into the story, into the life of this character, and even a ridiculous plot twist can’t pull you out. […]

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