Have you ever noticed that Christian cinema tends to revolve around trauma, tragedy, and miraculous near-death cataclysms?

Art’s alchemy resides in the relationship between the art and the audience. 

Lost City spoiler alert:

Even if you could give two shits about X’s pedantry, and the movie’s interplay between form and content, it’s still possible to sit back and enjoy the sheer artistry — nay, majesty! — of its cinematic construction.

“Give the people what they paid for.”