As I seem to recall from the Time online interview of Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman (courtesy a certain rat), the director was too obsessed with the reality of his own world to let a fantasy world be real. So he pushed the dream aspect of it further than he probably should have.
I'll have to see the film for myself, but I'm already inclined to agree. I want fantasy to be itself, to stand on its feet and ask, "Why justify anything?" I want the story to believe in itself, so that I don't have to.
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Date: 2005-10-05 01:57 am (UTC)I'll have to see the film for myself, but I'm already inclined to agree. I want fantasy to be itself, to stand on its feet and ask, "Why justify anything?" I want the story to believe in itself, so that I don't have to.