Word: visual
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...This approach, of using the interview itself in the way that most directors use a screenplay, may be the key to what sets Morris' films apart from others, fiction and non-fiction. He effectively combines the elements of reality of documentary film with the studio shots, props, and visual artistry of pre-written productions...
Because of the visual style he chooses, Hicks is able to retain the novel's dense, multi-tiered flashback structure. Though the screenplay is, for the most part, religiously faithful to the novel, Hicks does take a few very slight liberties with the ending. More cynical viewers may find his alterations maudlin; I found them highly effective--and appropriate, given the film's overall tone...
Snow Falling On Cedars is many things: an ambitious if slightly uneven visual fantasy, a murder mystery, a love story. But most of all, it is a parable about forgiveness, about the fact that injustices will spiral endlessly through the centuries until someone decides that retribution is not a viable option. And as we wonder whether or not Ishmael will decide to end the injustice by foregoing his revenge against Hatsue, we must ask ourselves if we can have the strength to forego revenge against those who have wronged us--lest it lead us to wrong others...
...Titus was good, I could only offer that conventional adjectives like "good" and "bad" don't apply to this film-going experience, but that by all means they should see the movie. What Taymor has accomplished, against all odds, is a truly revolutionary form of expression. Both the uniquely visual quality of her imagination and the work at hand are traditionally presented on stage, but in this transfer she manages to take full advantage of the medium of film to show and to do more...