Spike Lee’s focus, appropriately, is on the process and the passion, not the tabloid conjecture and presumed wackiness.
Haven’t we seen this before: a young boy, isolated, frightened, able to see dead people? Didn’t he come with a shrink as the vehicle for a shocking reveal? This assumption and the corresponding visceral reaction to The Sixth Sense probably kept me from seeing Paranorman sooner, which is unfortunate. Paranorman is a fine film with meticulous animation, […]
A new Ken Burns films that reminds us of New York City in the late 1980’s, the power of coercion, and the paranoia around authority.