Tarsem is an Indian, like M. Night Shyamalan of The Sixth Sense, and comes from a culture where ancient imagery and modern technology live side by side. In the 1970s, Pauline Kael wrote, the most interesting directors were Altman, Scorsese, and Coppola, because they were Catholics whose imaginations were enriched by the church of pre-Vatican II, while most other Americans were growing up on Eisenhower’s bland platitudes. Now our whole culture has been tamed by marketing and branding, and mass entertainment has been dumbed down. It is possible the next infusion of creativity will come from
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