Tough Movies For Dumb - Charades

"Chart!"

Raj started doing a weird dance. It looked like a seizure. He pointed to his ear again.

Raj stared. "How did he know that?"

Raj looked at the Sigma team, who were winking at him.

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"That's the thing about tough movies for charades, Raj," Kyle said, patting him on the back. "Sometimes the acting doesn't matter. Sometimes, it's just about who wrote the script."

"Walking Atmosphere? No..."

Consider first the problem of plotlessness . Charades requires a spine: a beginning, a middle, and an end that can be reduced to three or four physical beats. But what do you do with a film like Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)? Do you mime the creation of the universe? Do you whisper to your partner, “It’s about a Texas family… but also the dinosaurs”? Do you stand still and weep softly, hoping they guess “the origins of consciousness”? You cannot. Malick’s film is a tone poem, a prayer, a sensory immersion. It has no “plot” to mime because its plot is simply being alive . For charades, this is useless.

Raj nodded. He mimed a sphere.