Gus Van Sant's Constant Thematic and Cinematic Elements
The differences in these films could not be more blatant, and yet Gus Van Sant has found a way to portray the same messages and use the same techniques in each.

Film students on a point-n-shoot field trip to a local nature preserve are all disappearing from the group one or two at a time. Most peculiar.
The differences in these films could not be more blatant, and yet Gus Van Sant has found a way to portray the same messages and use the same techniques in each.
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is preoccupied with plot and not on the greater struggle of the Osage.
Starring Jake Gyllenhall and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, 'Ambulance' is a film not only about a bank heist gone wrong, but also about brotherhood.
“It's not ghosts. It's not supernatural. It's... It's America. And it's everywhere.”
We can criticize depictions from old media, but they weren’t simply “good for their time”. They were fighting and struggling in a world we can’t imagine.