8/28/2023 0 Comments One hour one life apocalypse![]() ![]() Based on “Button, Button,” a short story by the fantasy writer Richard Matheson, “The Box” is the first of the movies Mr. Kelly is developing a worldview, puzzling through the great questions, or fast-working himself into a creative impasse, maybe all three. The similarities among all three of his features (he also wrote the screenplay for “Domino”) are striking and suggest that Mr. As in his earlier films, he is again using genre (and pretty actors) as a vehicle to ask questions about the human condition (and conditioning) amid a thicket of high, low and trash cultural allusions and against a backdrop of impending doom. Like those films, his latest, “The Box,” is sincere and sinister and inevitably ambitious, a serious work that insists on its own seriousness even when it edges toward the preposterous. ![]() Richard Kelly, the writer and director of the much-loved “Donnie Darko” and much-loathed “Southland Tales,” has a thing for the apocalypse.
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