This film was not about pain.
Though it was real, raw, genuine, authentic, and all the other synonyms...it was not about pain. It was also not really about realness, though the film definitely gave that feeling. The road this masterpiece traversed was about what was not there..what was almost there.
I'm sure we're all acquainted with Taoism, otherwise known as the philosophy of yin and yang, the duality and entanglement of the forces of "good" and "evil", wrestling for cosmic dominance yet necessitating…