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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Imp Zone > Blockbuster Video > Christopher Nolan and JJ Abrams movies have no soul
 
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Dec 10, 2011

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I think Nolan's movies are "larger than life" in a lot of ways. Interstellar is rooted in a mythic journey filled with Big Ideas and one of the characters (Matt Damon) is basically a walking talking symbol. In Dark Knight all of the big three figures are more symbols than people. In that sense, I think condemning his movies as having no soul feels unfair. It never feels like the people we're watching are real people but I can still feel the message that Nolan's trying to convey through them. The souls of his movies always rest on the message, and I have to say that I really dig the relentless commitment Nolan has towards focusing on these mythic sorts of narratives. I think his movies do speak to people in a unique and valuable way, even if the characters themselves don't interact believably.

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