Island Review: A Film That Nudges at the Quiet Trap of Complacent Solitude
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The belief that man is not an island unto himself is widely accepted. More elusive is the distinction between solitude as a deliberate escape and loneliness as its unintended consequence. That ambiguity has always lent isolation a double-edged quality in storytelling — comforting in theory, corrosive in practice.