fable

And the first image they put on screen was Redford as Roy Hobbs in “The Natural,” Barry Levinson’s Arthurian baseball fable that sits alongside “Field of Dreams” in Dad Movie Canon.

It answers Riefenstahl’s carefully chosen narrative, a fable of disillusioned purity, with an equally forensic counternarrative exposing her childlike narcissism about the impact of her talent.

Lawrence is sparing in his style, the image desaturated like a vintage photograph, locating this fable in an unspecified future.

“The Wayfinder” is a story of cultural erasure wrapped into a fantastical fable.

Some of the fables, such as “The Locket,” are told in multiple parts, its story of a humble sea trader and the allure and dangers of wealth spread among multiple displays and a lighthouse.