Do you feel emotionally manipulated yet?
Storytelling is, inherently, manipulative. But not all manipulation is inherently exploitative.
Are storytellers nothing more than highly effective emotional manipulators?
That thought occurred to me the other night while I was watching one of my favorite Coen brothers’ films: Fargo. (Miller’s Crossing and No Country for Old Men round out my top three.)
The Coen brothers tend to write scripts that are, somehow, emotionally powerful while still manag…
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