dialectic

I saw the possibility of making a film that was dialectic, where words and speaking were at the center of the film.

I’m reminded of a meme that likely began in the dialectic of Black tweeting: Black people will never be lonely; there will always be a white person all in their business.

We grow up to discover there are names in every culture for that — yin and yang, the Apollonian and Dionysian, Vishnu and Shiva, thesis and antithesis, the law of contraries, the dialectic.

Their fascinatingly mercurial relationship lends the movie what structure it has, establishing a kind of combative dialectic between Napoleon’s personal and professional battles.

“This year’s recipients reflect the inevitable dialectic between individual creativity and community in the life of the arts.”