Actors: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr
Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
I imagine this film is adapted from a novel, and one of the trickiest things about adapting novels to film is showing character changes. A novel takes days to read, in which the characters stew about in your mind - they coalesce and evanesce. Here you've got less than three hours to show the journey of a man from early manhood to old age - how do you make the shifts in his life not seem forced?
Blimp... has some masterful montages and monologues that help it tell this story. Very little in the plot seems contrived - this is to say that at no point do you think 'the story has to go here' and then it does. We don't know where it's necessarily headed, and if you're telling someone's life story (fictional or actual), that's the best job you can do.
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