@deanduncan63Saw #ManofAran. Patchwork, poetry & profound all mixed together. The story, such as it is, is nearly shoddy. The Eisensteinian editing …
… (not Flaherty’s idea, originally) is very striking, & really pretty strained. More expository assemblies …
… are effectively impressionistic. As has been often observed, they don’t quite give us the whole/real economic or ideological picture! …
… And then there’s the problem of the basking sharks! (See details in Paul Rotha’s [& Jay Ruby’s] Flaherty biography, 1983) …
… However, before & more than all that, Flaherty’s awesome photographic rendering of this stupendous setting ultimately obliterates …
… every objection. This is something special, to an historical degree. The sea!