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Few filmmakers have packaged their thematic sensibilities as clearly as Paul Schrader. Simply put, you know what to expect in Schrader's twisted cinematic world — prepare for lonely men reckoning with their morality and the bleak future of humanity entirely. He has relied on a recurring set of ideas and motifs so much as of late that he created an unofficial trilogy of "Man in a Room" psychological dramas, beginning with First Reformed and ending last year with Master Gardner.
William Tell is a fascinating case study of someone inscrutable but completely unambiguous in his desires and aspirations. He shelters himself from the noise of the outside world, but he is not a hedonist, evident by his discipline to only gamble on minor stakes. Tell is not trying to go for broke, but instead, he pursues the satisfactory sensation of control in an unpredictable game of luck.
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