Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a closeup of undulating rocks – they resemble heaving ocean waves – is the result of industry or natural “disaster.” A line of empty dump trucks motors into the demolition zone, and in the other direction, a line of full trucks hauls wreckage out, to be dumped in a hole, where it closely resembles what we see in shots of rockslides. In what I believe is the yard outside his home, he directs two men as they dig a trench and break up stones to place in it, creating what De Lucci calls a “magic circle.” It’ll remain untouched, the grass unmowed, although the dogs and horses are allowed in it. The director adheres to the classical picture-worth-1,000-words cliche – in one shot, we watch one man fill a wheelbarrow with maybe a dozen stones, then labor mightily to push it up a slope, and the moment gives us just enough information to infer that this structure was a monumental achievement hundreds or thousands of years ago.
Author: mliss1578
Published at: 2025-12-04 22:30:00
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