Review: George Miller's 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' is a curious, transfixing film that blends the storybook tones 'Babe: Pig in the City' with the dark, sexualized magic of 'The Witches of Eastwick.'
Babe: Pig in the City. It’s a curious film, messy in all its ambition but consistently transfixing, an earnest labor of love—and one about love.plays Alithea, a narratologist who travels the world giving lectures on the nature and uses of story throughout history. She speaks of science’s conquering—or, perhaps, gentler replacement—of myth as humanity’s way of codifying knowledge. All the fantastical creatures of old legend have just become metaphor.
But first Alithea, ever the skeptic academic, wants to talk things through. In her conversation with this hulking, melancholy spirit, Alithea learns the story of the Djinn. His previous imprisonments were caused by misplaced trust in his human handlers combined with the tricks of fate that govern any life in the world.
His stories involve a murderous prince, a brilliant woman vastly ahead of her time, a scheming concubine. These tales each unspool toward something maybe resembling a moral lesson, but Miller is not so interested in the neat conclusions of fable. Greed and lust and pride and other human all-too-predictable folly that can’t be tidily resolved keep the Djinn bouncing lonely and frustrated through time.
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