The_Film_That_Changed_My_Life

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Introduction
For me, a seventeen-year-old high school student, it was the first time
I was overwhelmed by cinema, when the form did something unexpected,
literary. In this instance, Tarantino’s sleight-of-hand storytelling could only
be done with the medium of film. Moreover, it was the first time I felt the
presence of the director, a full-on personality and force of style imposed on
the movie. Tarantino’s DNA was on each frame of celluloid.
That, in a way, is the fix I’m constantly chasing—to find the directors
inside their work. To hear and see and feel that personality connect with
an audience.
Even if that audience is just me.
When you find it, it takes the wind out of you.