Scene4 Magazine | letters to the editor

I particularly like what Bobkoff says about Michael Apted using suggestive imagery to face up to the ugly realities of slavery. It is so much more powerful for the viewer when our own imagination fills in the images and meaning of what is left out or only fleetingly suggested on screen. Just a few choice words evoked an emotion in me: "Chains dangling in the empty rafters of a creaking slave ship" and "glimpses of the sweating bodies of people shackled together and vomiting in the hull of a slave ship" - I could almost smell the stench. This is a great lesson for me as a fellow writer for what to strive for in my own screenplays.
Arthur Kanegis
read Ned Bobkoff's article