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Then, after opening the bottle, she accidentally releases the djinn, who insistently offers her three wishes. One day, Alithea buys an old bottle at a store in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, unaware that a djinn (Idris Elba) has been trapped inside of it for 3,000 years. She’s a great admirer of stories but seems completely severed from their very lifeblood-the wonder that they can spark. Despite her appreciation of the power of storytelling, Alithea approaches the craft of storytelling in a detached, wholly academic manner. Alithea posits that ancient myths and creation stories have been replaced by scientific narratives, and that this has, in part, led to a diminishment of our collective sense of wonder. Alithea (Tilda Swinton) is a lonesome scholar and narratologist, with a particular interest in what stories have in common and how they make our “bewildering existence” more bearable.
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Written by Miller and Augusta Gore, the film may fall short in achieving the emotional gravitas that it aims for, but its bursts of visual splendor are spectacularly vibrant, occasionally lurid, and full of a vitality that’s increasingly absent from big-budget Hollywood spectacles, which are often driven by rote narratives and let down by bland aesthetics.įor all its grandiosity, Three Thousand Years of Longing starts out as an intimate character study. That partly explains why George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing feels like such a breath of fresh air, as the film not only cleverly examines the very nature of storytelling, it clearly understands that, in the movies, the act of image-making is inextricable from that of storytelling. But in a cinematic landscape now overpopulated by prequels, sequels, and suffocatingly bloated cinematic universes, self-professed storytellers often seem to over-emphasize the importance of narrative as a means of masking a dearth of originality, both in the actual stories being told and the images being used to tell them. Hollywood has, of course, always been in the business of telling stories. “Storytelling” has become a ubiquitous buzzword in Hollywood, at least of late, used by industry creatives and their public relations arms to tout the importance and value of a film or television show.