The secret of the movie is that it doesn't strain to draw parallels with current world events - because it doesn't have to.
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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.
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