If there’s one thing that Steven Spielberg continues to pursue throughout his career, it is the combination of the truth and the fantastical. Of course, he knows in reality these two modes cannot mesh, except in a medium that blends the fictional and the real. As The Fabelmans illustrated, he has been obsessed with the world hidden inside the square frames of celluloid since early childhood. He has been fascinated with cinema’s ability to blend reality and fiction, to create an illusion that doesn’t need to look real but feel real. Although, in his cinematic language, that intersection can only be expressed through spectacle. Having learned from the catastrophic yet thrilling scene of a train crash in The Greatest Show on Earth, the New Hollywood director has taken that contrast of the horrible and the wondrous to new heights in