Notebook(@mubinotebook):"It’s dangerous to critique something that is not there in a filmmaker’s work. [Christopher] Nolan is under no obligation to include depictions of everyday life in his films. But he is fascinated by the way spectacle can annihilate what is ordinary and everyday, and therein lies the paradox: His films are caught between what they want and what they rarely show. And so often, when that everydayness is depicted, it is given only minimal texture and the barest pretense of plausibility." Thomas Quist writes on the absence of the ordinary the work of Christopher Nolan:

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"It’s dangerous to critique something that is not there in a filmmaker’s work. [Christopher] Nolan is under no obligation to include depictions of everyday life in his films. But he is fascinated by the way spectacle can annihilate what is ordinary and everyday, and therein lies the paradox: His films are caught between what they want and what they rarely show. And so often, when that everydayness is depicted, it is given only minimal texture and the barest pretense of plausibility." Thomas Quist writes on the absence of the ordinary the work of Christopher Nolan: