11-08-2026, 12:22 AM
i haven't read Emily Wilson's translation, but i just read her review and it definitely sounds like she is critiquing the film against her understanding of the story rather than taking the film for "what it is".
that said i thought some of her points seemed fair, raised some interesting ways of reading nolan's film in comparison with the "text", and she actually voiced a couple of thoughts that i had about the film myself:
that said i thought some of her points seemed fair, raised some interesting ways of reading nolan's film in comparison with the "text", and she actually voiced a couple of thoughts that i had about the film myself:
Quote:there is nothing inherently wrong with the movie’s attempt to approximate contemporary American speech. If you’re not going to compose a script in Homeric Greek, or even in metrical English verse, you might as well use something like conversational American English. But writing dialogue is not one of Nolan’s talents. The language is relentlessly expository, humourless and flat.
Quote:This muddled subplot is foisted on the film in order to make Nolan’s relentlessly didactic point about the contemporary Anglophone world: that the lies and xenophobia of the war on terror and Brexit began a cultural decline that is now destroying the values ‘we’ hold most dear.
