The colors were not particularly rich, indicating a less- expensive print. But the performances are all very powerful. Pruitt Taylor Vince's acting gets more and more intense as the film goes on. Mangold moves his story with a slow and deliberate speed, but completely pulls the viewer into the lives of his characters and particularly Victor's life. Mangold's experiment in visual storytelling may not have a lot of application to other films, but it works extremely well in this film.
Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.