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Henderson County (Aug 10, 2023) - I recently asked Mills River Town Manager Daniel Cobb about the transfer of hundreds of tons of soil from the ridge at the intersection of South Mills River Road and N.C. 280 to river bottom lands off Jeffress Road, reportedly to prepare for another housing development.
The opening shot of “Permanent Record” is ominous and disturbing, and we don’t know why. In an unbroken movement, the camera tracks past a group of teenagers who have parked their cars on a bluff overlooking the sea, and are hanging out casually, their friendship too evident to need explaining. There seems to be no “acting” in this shot, and yet it is superbly acted because it feels so natural that we accept at once the idea that these kids have been close friends for a long time. Their afternoon on the bluff seems superficially happy, and yet there is a brooding quality to the shot,...