A story is to a film what a canvas is to a painting. The canvas is not the point of the painting. The point is to sit in front of the painting and connect with the mystery – that wavering state of understanding which takes place before it’s explained away.

Yet it is this explaining away that characterizes both our world and the world of Giant’s Kettle.

But no matter how hard we try the mystery will persist. Every story attempts to rid at least part of it, but the mystery always reveals itself, if not in the story itself then in how the story is told, the cinematic form.

NEXT: THE FORM