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>>exitb+(OP)
My wife considers “show, don’t tell” shows confusing and just bad. More dialogue, better the show.

She chooses to watch shows in which characters address each other with full names and say their intentions out loud. My brain hurts.

>>fabiob+S3
One of my favourite films is called Upstream Color.

Below is not a spoiler, but I like to avoid reading anything about a good film before watching it, and I recommend to do the same here. You like it or you don’t.

This film has no staged speech that tries to explain anything. The little dialogue that it has is what would naturally arise given the situation. For the same reason, most characters have no names or no full names. No situation in which they would formally introduce themselves takes place.

Do I fully understand it immediately, or even after watching it once? No. Does it mean I dislike it? Rather the opposite. Actually, I enjoy being treated as an adult who can make conclusions without having given any pre-digested explanation.

>>strogo+R5
If you enjoyed Upstream Color, I highly recommend checking out Carruth's previous project, Primer, if you haven't already. It's a movie that takes a dozen rewatches to make full sense of. Natural dialogue, organic cinematography, and no hand-holding.

Upstream Color was a great movie as well, it's a shame what happened between Carruth and Amy Seimetz.