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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
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All the movies mentioned require audience participation from beginning to end. The director crafted a journey and is telling a story; the violence has a purpose and a place, the dialogue has been wordsmithed to elicit thought and feeling.
There is no thought of a sequel after the denouement.
I have thoughts on all of them.
I think There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men should be listed along with the three in the OP as movies that need complete viewer concentration to get the full measure of the film.
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