Ms. Jessica Kiang is basically saying that several "SHOTS" in the film are unoriginal. That is true. The Jessica Chastain shots with the child and the teenager have been seen before. That, however, does NOT mean that the story lines of those parts, where the child has bad dreams and the teenager is trying to be independent of his mother, are unoriginal. Do you understand the difference, Ms. Kiang?

The shot of the kids holding hands near a stream (teenage Williams) is, yes, unoriginal and that moment is also part of the story of that segment/poem. It seems like an easy and trite treatment of a fairly powerful poem. This *one* example holds weight, fair enough.

The shots of Mila Kunis etc. are "SHOTS", not story.

So it seems like Ms. Kiang is the one who is unable to separate visual shots from story – a pretty big issue for a reviewer. The stories were not things we had seen before and as a fan of Williams' poetry, I found the takes on the poems, for the most part, interesting and intriguing.

To dismiss everything as unoriginal because of a handful of shots is a very unoriginal review of a intriguing movie that is far from perfect (it feels long and repetitive at times), but is a good effort.

I also admire Franco for trying to bring poetry films into mainstream culture more. If nothing else, at least someone else will now have heard of CK Williams that's always a good thing.