A Masterclass in Screenplay and Dialogue

Rating: 10/10 (18 February 2019)

The way I wrote my book For A Pint of Mother's Milk was inspired a lot by how this movie was made: great storytelling is not about the plot, it's never about the plot; it's about the journey and the small details within it: the way you sliced garlic in prison, how rare your steak was cooked, what Pauli said and how he said it, the small interesting piquing elements that strike joy in the audience's heart; they'll feel terrific but they won't exactly know why! It takes guts to tell a story with no explicit plot and tell it well; then it's all about the treatment, and all about the direction: if it doesn't work you take all the blame, if it does, you basically strike gold. The only way to go for purely narcissistic directors and writers.