TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

David Denby writes about the spread of movies composed almost entirely of digital effects:

Movies based on that kind of imagery may be sensational as design, but they aren’t likely to fill us with the empathy, dread, and joy inspired by fictions about people making their way through a world where walls are solid, gravity is unrelenting, and matter is indissoluble. Storytelling thrives on limits, inhibitions, social conventions, a world of anticipations and outcomes. Can you have a story that means anything halfway serious without gravity’s pull and the threat of mortality?

The best movie I’ve seen in the past few years is “Before Sunrise,” a sixteen year-old film. The reason it’s such a great movie is how remarkably small it is. No one dies, no one’s going away to war, there’s no villain, no sense of foreboding. It’s two people walking around and talking, something so ordinary and boring, but that’s how life is, and that’s when important things happen.

When you work with the small, you can say a lot about the big things.