Bruce Darling

What do I think about this TV show? I think Brit Marling and her collaborators are f’ing geniuses and that their real-life tale of taking charge of their own creativity is more inspiring than any fiction. They had me at “Another Earth” and “Sound of My Voice” and again with “The OA.” We are so used to being the ‘fly on the wall’ or ‘behind the fourth wall’ and believing what we see (i.e., what the filmmaker presents to us) that their recurrent trick of presenting an individual character’s story that may or may not be true or real, that IS the story that you (and other characters in their film) want to believe, that in a twist is demonstrated to be almost conclusively false, but in the end reveal turns out to be quite probably but not conclusively true after all ... well, it works every time at grabbing our hearts, putting our hearts in our throats and igniting our souls. I’m looking forward to Part 2, which I will start binging momentarily.