I don't often write about movies. This is not because I am
not a film enthusiast - on the contrary. There are few pleasures I enjoy more
than sitting down and enjoying a good work of cinematography. However, very few
movies elicit a response from me worth sharing. When I first saw The Avengers,
I had one such response. I wrote that I was impressed by how the movie managed
to weave together the narratives of different characters into a singular point
of narrative convergence, only to let each character go his or her own way,
only to have their narratives converge at a later date. I thought it was a
masterful implementation of cinema storytelling. Today, I saw a movie that
prompted from me a similar response. That movie was, of all things, Guardians
of the Galaxy.
