A movie ending should never betray the expectations that have been set up and fed until that moment. That’s why the ending of Brooklyn is perfect, due to the changes Nick Hornby made on the…
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Paolo Braga
Pure drama, in stories and life, is when what one believed to be true, valuable and praiseworthy, suddenly turns out to be false, wrong and blamable. The pressure (thus, drama) is then almost unbearable. A…
My favorite moment in The Big Short is when Mark Baum (Steve Carell) forces Georgia, a Standard & Poor’s analyst, to admit that the agency has been assigning its clients false positive ratings, fearing that…
Goodbye Downton Abbey! I’ve just seen the ending – the last episode aired on ITV last December. Everything clings. An adequate finale for one of the greatest international successes (if not the greatest) in the…
Humor is a good way to hide exposition. Amusing explanations are light. The audience doesn’t perceive the writer’s concern to feed them information. Viewers don’t realize that an effort of comprehension is asked of them.…