The film consists of exactly 27 shots, which for 100 an eight minutes is just astounding. Its orders of magnitude fewer shots than you would have in classical hollywood senema. The whole society has been psychologically and physically dramatized. And there's a lot to look at, because they're composed essentially like paintings.
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