Synecdoche, New York

Mirror Reflections on Time’s Dualities

MOVIES begin with a whisper, a bang, a few words of introduction, a swell of music, an eerie quiet. Openings set the stage and the mood and at times they also drop hints that — much like the glass snow globe that falls from Orson Welles's hand at the onset of “Citizen Kane” — telegraph what the rest of the movie makes explicit. “It's always best to start at the beginning,” Glinda the good witch tells Dorothy as she waves her wand at the Yellow Brick Road, which of course really starts back in Kansas with three farmhands, a witchy neighbor and a song about somewhere over the rainbow. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (6341 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 4 gennaio 2008