The Worst Person in the World: The Honesty of the Freeze
There is a disturbing trend in modern cinema: the complete eradication of physical reality in favor of digital convenience. When a director wants to bend time, they immediately surround their actors with green screens, hanging digital doves in the air, creating a sterile, lifeless vacuum. Joachim Trier refuses this cowardice. For the iconic frozen-time sequence in The Worst Person in the World, he proved that magic is only compelling when it is anchored in the physical world. ...