CINEMA — MYTHS AND MEANING🎥
A Triple Feature Is Now In Session
In three films that champion the writer’s domain
Settle in for another rainy November night with a soft blanket, a warm drink of your choice, and a big bowl of popcorn. What better time to indulge in some of cinema’s most intelligent narrative, the courtroom drama?
Though many of these films can be seen as limited cinematically, they provide the very best in character study, and intriguing peeks into the workings of the criminal mind.
Films that deserve mentioning include Primal Fear, featuring a breakout performance by a very young Edward Norton, To Kill A Mockingbird, which is considered one the best screen adaptations in film history, and 12 Angry Men, a film that never actually takes place in a courtroom, but deals in character analysis that scrapes to the bone.
There are though three personal favorites, worth viewing again and most certainly if for the first time. For that reason, there will be no spoiler alerts for any of the following.
Why not begin then with a tale from Agatha Christie? Renowned as one of the greatest mystery writers of all time, Christie’s work usually transports her audiences to exotic locales with one of her famous detectives.
