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As we have discussed, it is "the explanation" that is the better part of filmmaking. Forget and leave behind the pathetic necessity to "show something" to "demonstrate something on the screen". Some pointless visual effects. Some ridiculous action sequence. No, the most important part of the film, the play, the whatever, is when a character explains to another character what is going on, what they believe, what they are thinking, what they have been hiding.
I dont know where the series Andor is going and whether it can maintain its momentum to transcend, to rise above the pathetic Star Wars mythology with its emphasis on giant cosmic eggs / death stars and its Joseph Campbell-esque "hero's journey" so simple, so overused.
No, what we need is two adults, desperate and alone, who reveal their plans, their hopes, their dreams, their failures, their secrets. To reveal, at least in part, what is going on.
Forget your battles between giant robots, that is for children.
Episode 10 of Andor has a classic in the explanation genre. It even has a little craft from the intelligence world. It seems the rebellion has planted an agent in the empire security service. This agent requests a meeting with his handler to warn him and to resign. And the handler, in classic intelligence fashion, tells his agent that he can not resign, that he is trapped. And then the handler explains his sacrifice, his motivations, his fears as a way of reminding the agent that he is not alone in regretting, in part, the price he has paid.
They did a really good job.
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