The latest film from Marvel Studios is equal parts puzzle piece and experiment. It is withholding and not inviting, as if, from the very start, there are two forces at war for the kind of film Eternals should be. This time however, it’s more lore than story, about beings from another planet brought to ours for a purpose the audience won’t fully grasp until the end of the film. A stable-seeming environment is revealed to be constantly in flux, sometimes with frightening and destabilizing speed.Įternals, Zhao’s follow-up to her acclaimed Academy Award-winning film, also begins with explanatory text. In six months’ time, Empire’s ZIP code is discontinued. A sheetrock plant in the real-life town of Empire, Nevada, shuts down in January 2011. Chloé Zhao’s 2020 film Nomadland begins with sparse lines of text that set up an entire world of loss.
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