![]() ![]() The result, however, isn’t a film to which many would eagerly lay claim. Other names like Lewis Carroll, Guillermo del Toro and Tarsem Singh aren’t lucky enough to get namechecked, though they’re all clearly in Young’s dream stew. Cavendish’s adventurous exploration of alternate dimensions has given loose inspiration to Young’s glittery but grief-fueled fantasy, which those credits again describe as “inspired by Margaret Cavendish and other dreams.” That title, of course, belongs first to a somewhat more established female author: Margaret Cavendish, whose 1666 book “The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World” was a foundational work of science fiction. ![]() For a filmmaker to take a possessive credit in their debut is already a confident move for the opening credits of the first feature by writer-director-star Carlson Young to present it as “Carlson Young’s ‘ The Blazing World’” is a brazen one. ![]()
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