Awaken - Movie Review - The Austin Chronicle
The last year has denied us so much, but one part of our expected lives that has been so profoundly missing, yet never discussed or noted, is spectacle. To be in awe is, as far as we are aware, a uniquely human experience. Honestly, it's part of what cinema does so well, especially in theatres: to be beyond what is every day, to be astounding, huge, enveloping, providing the 10,000 feet view. At the same time, cinema has a problem with the grandiose, and even more so with the abstract. That's the only reasonable excuse for the Oscars passing up on ever awarding Godfrey Reggio a Best Documenta...