So maybe it's not the plot that's amazing, it's the method of storytelling.
She added that she had "much respect for that method of storytelling".
It was up to executive producer and screenwriter Eric Heisserer (Final Destination 5) to turn Chiang's lofty thoughts on language, linguistics and cognitive science, as they pertain to the worldview of people or aliens in this case, into a cohesive screenplay that uses a very scrambled method of storytelling to disseminate the plot and characters.
It's a medium, a method of storytelling.
Sticking to her habitual method of storytelling, Walters draws all eyes to Lt. Charles Acland, a 26-year-old British soldier who is gravely injured but escapes death after his armored vehicle is obliterated by terrorist bombs in Iraq.
Rewatching it for this article, it's clear that it has completely abandoned the traditional Hollywood three-act method of storytelling in favour of a bit where everyone mumbles, a bit where everyone screams, a bit where everyone cries and a bit where everyone whoops.
There's his catalogue of images: moving water reflecting the sky, silver birch forests, cast-iron bells, religious icons, horses, apples, mud, war; the fluid, serpentine camera movements of impressive duration and sensuality; and the prodigally poetic method of storytelling, with unsignposted dream sequences and flashbacks.
I don't think it's any fault of his or his method of storytelling, it's just how it's played out.
Yet other critics, such as Kristin Thompson, see less value in the ambiguous ending of the film and more in its structure and novel method of storytelling, highlighting Inception as a new form of narrative that revels in "continuous exposition".
