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I'm afraid that it might be impossible to understand "A River Runs Through It" without a good understanding of fishing, especially the variety of fishing that relies on tricking the fish with a fly rather than simply baiting it. (For these Presbyterian fishermen, using bait is as bad as...
There is a real art to fly-fishing. The Reverend even uses a metronome to teach his children the rhythm of casting. It's an important turning point in the film when Norman notices that his brother has developed a new rhythm, independent of their father. Of course, few would...
Visually, the directing is sublime. Director of Photography Philippe Rousselot makes every fishing line shine in the sun and every river glint with promised fish. Some of the fishing sequences are absolutely spectacular as the camera goes from fisher, to fishing line to fish. How do you direct a fish...
But pretty pictures are not enough to make a movie and Redford's explanation of the metaphysics of fly fishing comes straight from the book, making the film little more than a collection of illustrations for the novel. It would be hard to visualize the beauty that Maclean describes in...
The meaning of A River Runs Through It is somewhere just beneath the surface, like a fish waiting to be caught. My grandfather was a fisherman and I admired him much the same way that Norman and Paul admire the Reverend Maclean. But I never really understood the lure of...