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They say the measure of any society is how it treats its most vulnerable members.
There is, indeed, a darker backstory here.
The film opens on a fleeting 8mm image of a young girl running through a field toward the camera.
Is this footage of Masear as a child?
But she seems reticent to reveal too much of her past, and her elusiveness drives our fascination.
So many movies work toward specificity, toward a eureka moment of greater understanding.
Its harder, sometimes, to make one whose mystery grows the more we watch it.
Hummingbirds, obviously, are a different matter altogether; theyre not exactly known for populating our nightmares.
Before our eyes,Every Little Thingcomes to embody the fragile yet uncontainable mystery of all life.
