“A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.”
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Roger Ebert. (Ebert’s Law)
the quote in full: “Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert’s Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.”