• abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Being on the nose and over the top is a stylistic choice that can be really wonderful

    Right, but it can also be obnoxious to beat over the head with the same concept over and over. ]

    It seems like critics just have a smug preference for subtlety and ambiguity

    I don’t know why you ascribe smugness to it, someone that watches movies for a living is obviously gonna prefer films that don’t waste time telling the audience something more than necessary.