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Is Avatar secretly a monochrome silent movie (preferably viewed in two dimensions)? Were the greatest lessons of cinema learned and mastered even before the advent of sound? Do these rules apply to contemporary cinema and does anyone pay any attention anyway? Well, you all do it seems because yet again the Kermode Uncut commentating community is raising the level of online movie debate...

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