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Hollywood ignored a film that quietly challenges how you live
Hollywood Ignored A Film That Quietly Challenges How You Live
This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you.***Netflix’s “Train Dreams” received four Oscar nominations this year, including Best Picture, and it walked away empty-handed from every one of them. Ironically, that might be the most fitting outcome for a film that does nothing to demand your attention but simply invites you to consider the mundane beauty that permeates even the most ordinary of lives.In a dopamine-addicted world, where our senses are blitzed by ever-louder and ever-shorter demands for our attention, “Train Dreams” functions like an antidote for what ails us. It is an ode to the slow work of beauty and its power to transform the human heart. There is a scene early in the film where the protagonist, Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), and his wife, Gladys (Felicity Jones), walk to the edge of the Moyie River and begin laying stones in the dirt. Not a foundation — not yet. Just markers. Here is where the walls will go. Here is where the bed will be. Here, where...
