This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
After decades of films redefining the form by showing us "what we can do," Christopher Nolan takes his talents to a film that shows us the same in an extraordinarily bleak way.
Hollywood blockbusters are all about showing off. Titanic, in 1999, showed off the destruction of a real historical event: a showcase of how far we had come with visual effects by creating something almost completely realistic and horrifying. Avatar, a decade later, did it again, showing realism within…