Hey Steemits!
My name is Derek Jacobs. I write highly questionable things about movies on my very own website, Plot and Theme. I started Plot and Theme in 2015 with one purpose: produce long-form reviews and essays that explain the artistic reasons behind the choices made by filmmakers. There are movie review sites everywhere on the internet, but I want Plot and Theme to be different.
I don't just jot down my reactions to movies, I look deeper into why I have those reactions. What do Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams do with their performances to wrench such empathy from me in Manchester by the Sea? How does Rodrigo Prieto (the cinematographer from Martin Scorsese’s Silence) frame a long-shot to make me feel utterly powerless – just like the characters? Why does Tom Ford organize the structure of Nocturnal Animals in such a parallel fashion, and what effect does it have on my understanding of the story he wants to tell?
These are just some of the questions I have been confronted with while reviewing films on Plot and Theme, and I mean to keep it up. So far, readers have appreciated this style; the number of page views and unique visitors has consistently risen since the site's inception, and the site passed 200K unique page views in June 2017!
I am going to be posting some of my favorite essays and reviews here on Steemit. If you enjoy my movie reviews and essays, please give me a follow, comment on the posts, and participate. I look forward to discussing movies with you!
