Aw c’mon! All flicks are escapist fantasies. Do the elevated personages at the Telegraph really think Casablanca was realism?
I haven’t seen even one war movie that was realistic. The Telegraph writers need to get a life.
Some folks think only adult dramas about boring professors living mundane boring lives and cheating on their wives in grinding realism are high literature on film form. Usually you mostly see it with literature snobs, but this guy brings it into movies.
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