George Miller’s 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' is a story about stories themselves: about the power of narrative, the feats of imagination that sustain and connect us. Our review. ⬇️
This is a movie interested in gathering the common threads of humanity like some bouquet of justifications for peace and understanding — a movie about the universal ingredients in stories of every culture. So for Djinn to fall prey to what connects us all is saying something. We create myths to explain the inexplicable to ourselves. Love — illogical, overwhelming — emerges, not as a myth, but as something whose power we understand far less than we thought we did.
The stories Djinn tells, played out in muted flashbacks, are often too swift for anything to really catch on: there’s almost too much for each story to cover. The grand proportions of each story are there, but the most scintillating details are sometimes abandoned to the constant onrush of more details, more stories. Some things stand out nevertheless.
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