Movie Review: "The Better Angels" is also a Lincoln's Christ Story
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Manhola Dargis
HOLLYWOOD---The story of Abraham Lincoln’s childhood, “The Better Angels,” is also a Christ story in a strange key. It opens with black-and-white images of the Lincoln Memorial, some suggestive of the view of an awe-struck visitor. The absence of color holds your eye (black-and-white has become a palette for gimmicks and obscure auteurs), as do several arcs traced by the camera, as if that visitor were looking up and even searching. The camera movements seem familiar not only because they mirror the physical effort of what it’s like to tilt your head and stretch your neck, to gape up at a cathedral window or gathering clouds, but also because they evoke Terrence Malick. [link]
By Manhola Dargis
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| Braydon Denney in “The Better Angels,” by A. J. Edwards. Credit Amplify |
