starkness

When I first arrived at Reset, I was taken aback by the starkness of the space, but it didn’t take long for the hotel’s minimalism and clean lines to grow on me.

That starkness gives the movie the in-the-moment immediacy of a nature doc about a shark and a swarm of remoras.

The starkness of the white snow against his bright costume looks like a blank page asking: Who should Superman be today?

But that starkness also provides “Hard Truths” with a realism that allows viewers to focus on what's most important: the characters.

He lets his images do the talking: the hostility of the desert, the starkness of one figure against the sky, the terror of hundreds of figures crowded in worship around a flawed man.