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Alan1962
Reviews
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
My favorite film ever
Having had a two-month opportunity to catch up with some films I've missed during my 43 years, I place this film at the top. The cause of the opportunity: I became unemployed for my first time. The scene where "Gene" gives the pink slip to "Smiley" is a virtual replica of how I was let go. This film is "The Search for Intelligent Signs in the Universe" without a feminist agenda, or any explicit agenda. It is lyrical, and haunting. Jill Sprecher's director's commentary is extremely helpful. She suffered a mugging in her own life and underwent brain surgery as a result. Upon seeing the film I found it quite plausible that only a severe, jolting trauma (a'la Harrison Ford in "Regarding Henry") could thrust a storyteller's perception toward the precision of these insights.