Louisiana Story
The decent rating is for the Louisiana, but it comes with a significant hit from the "Story," which is pretty much a puff piece for what good neighbors oil companies are. But the images are the thing here, and what a thing they are, beautifully revealing the wildness and danger of the bayou combined with the inherent tension of a lone boy's presence in the midst of it. It is also hard to miss the ugly predictability and danger of the machinery, a striking contrast that the score and the "story" work overtime to undermine.
Mini Review: The decent rating is for the Louisiana, but it comes with a significant hit from the "Story," which is pretty much a puff piece for what good neighbors oil companies are. But the images are the thing here, and what a thing they are, beautifully revealing the wildness and danger of the bayou combined with the inherent tension of a lone boy's presence in the midst of it. It is also hard to miss the ugly predictability and danger of the machinery, a striking contrast that the score and the "story"
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