Change Your Image
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Reviews
Mitchellville (2004)
Mitchellville - Dreamy Reality
This excellent opus interweaves multiple layers of reality and dreams from onset to ending, bracing against the bulwark of corporate culture, childhood memory and longing, artistic expression in photography and music and the challenges of social justice. Its beauty lies not in the answers provided but in the questions asked: What is fact? Of what is the fantastical composed? How do we separate the two and yet find them inextricably raveled like skeins of brightly-colored threads? From the mercurial and curious to the barbarous, rancorous and inhumane, the tale takes shape, providing characters who wrestle with their foibles and joys; and one is never sure if, in this match of epic proportion, the reality perceived is singular or communal, the dream solitary or conjunctive. The poignancy of the life we desire and the juxtaposition of the one we actually lead is tested in fire, and the ore which emerges remains to be interpreted by each viewer.