This reminds me of a conversation I was having with my dad about literature that tries to portray things as they are rather than according to type (... the conversation felt more nuanced than that bald statement, but to generalize broadly). This film is doing the former. (Whereas some of the others you mention seem to be doing the latter thing, and apart from the fact that no real person is a type, there's also the problem that types themselves go in and out of fashion--and recognizability.)
And what you say about thinking Jim's worth it: that means so much to me. People are worth it. They don't have to be X-amount good or brave or smart or persevering to qualify as worth it. I love a film (or a story) that can care about them as they are, and invite us to care too.
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This reminds me of a conversation I was having with my dad about literature that tries to portray things as they are rather than according to type (... the conversation felt more nuanced than that bald statement, but to generalize broadly). This film is doing the former. (Whereas some of the others you mention seem to be doing the latter thing, and apart from the fact that no real person is a type, there's also the problem that types themselves go in and out of fashion--and recognizability.)
And what you say about thinking Jim's worth it: that means so much to me. People are worth it. They don't have to be X-amount good or brave or smart or persevering to qualify as worth it. I love a film (or a story) that can care about them as they are, and invite us to care too.