This is his most poignant since Big Fish and driven by a similar story of uncovering emotive truth in the ramblings of an old storyteller's fantasy. But I happen to share enough common ground about the value of storytelling, the same one that brings me to Raoul Ruiz on the farther end, so I make it a point to visit now and then. It comes down to the larger view of how we make sense of the world and our place within it, as both viewers surrounded by narratives and narrators of our own. I perceive storytelling as a tool - one of the most important - for untying knots, knots created by our attachment to things making story-sense a certain way only, it's where so much of our troubles begin, so that our whole world becomes a purer place, purer because we can roam with an unfettered mind. He offers storytelling as retreat to a purer place than the callous world out there, fantasy will often do that. He pumps warm emotional tap water, I would rather be taken to springs in the deep forest. He lauds the sticky-sweet qualities of imagination and nostalgia, gives us struggles of light versus dark I find myself drawn to filmmakers who cultivate the transience and non-attachment that reconcile opposites in their films. With Burton I usually pass through with some curiosity without being engaged more.
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