Letterboxd — Your life in film

i think there's a lot to compare here with ride in the whirlwind, another monte hellman movie that moves at a very slow pace but leaves a lot to unpack. the reason this film works for me so much more is the way hellman's slow pace compliments the script, a really point-in-time style where the entire movie flows off of character moments and dynamics, similar to ride in the whirlwind, although ride in the whirlwind does a less effective (although…

Ancient Greece was a landmark epoch for philosophy and writing. Aristotle’s treatise “Rhetoric” proposed the three audience-persuading appeals. The first appeal is Ethos, the usage of professionalism and characterization of the speaker and their experiences and knowledge, leading an audience to form an opinion of the speaker before they have even begun speaking. According to Aristotle, Ethos also divides into three more subsections: Phronesis, relating to intelligence and prudence, Arete, relating to general virtue, and Eunoia, relating to the speaker’s…