![]() The Man in the Black Hat owes just as much to Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name as he does to Johnny Cash’s Man in Black. Later, I learned its meaning was rooted in Hannah’s activism against GMO farming.Paradox unmistakably romanticises the myth of the old west. There are oblique references to things in Hannah’s life that aren’t fully explained, like the women’s obsessions with the seeds of their vegetables. It wants to be a lyrical futuristic tone poem but comes off as confusing. The reaches of the story are too large for the film’s humble budget and limited means. ![]() The frequent switch between the three styles can be disorienting. Occasionally, a filter is applied to make things seem unreal. However, most of the movie is shot in the staccato of digital, where lines are sharp and everything looks too real to be a dream. The celluloid bits are light and airy, used to give the movie a dreamy feel, as rays of light burn bright pink and colours blur together. That mix of aesthetics is also visible in the film’s shooting style, a harsh mix of 16mm and digital formats. Young’s defining characteristic is simply his hat, while most of the women, for whom the men pine, wear white, lacy prairie dresses. While a few of the characters would fit in a Peckinpah western, cowboy jacket and beard intact, the younger musicians seem to have stepped out of a steampunk convention. Paradox has a haphazard sense of style, mixing old and new fashions together like children playing dress up.
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