Disclaimer Although rather boring, Carly insists I cannot delete it. Who knows why. She will concede, however, that there could be a little bit more, or any, character development. Presumably people are more interesting than grandiose slabs of rock covered in snow and the redundancy of nature: trees, green stuff, flowers, trail, a couple of woodpeckers, a hundred thousand penguins, some glaciersm and a long long list of adjectives. Lacking characters, the danger is that it will be imbued with what Mr. Christopher Hayes so eloquently referred to as “River Runs Through It Bullshit”. I am sure this is not criticism of the movie but rather warranted dread of the “pop-pseudo-metaphysical-I read the Tao Te Ching in high school and have a picture of Ganapati on my t-shirt” banality I often come up with. I have
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