WP

Faces is wiser than Shadows. I agree with your comment about Shadows feeling "freer", but people aren't free, they're trapped inside this society and their interactions with it and Faces protrays this truer than any film i've seen. Life is a mess, people are a mess, interactions are a mess, they're not nicely packaged like a lot of the cinema you seem to be into is. There's so much sadness, so much desperation, so much ugliness in that film. Yet every character is screaming for some kind of freedom. It's spot on. People spend 10 years in university studying for psychology doctorates apparantly because they're interested in human behaviour even though most of them hardly have any interactions with the people they're "studying", but that's another issue, anyway my point is that they'll learn more about the nature of human interactions from a John Cassavetes film than they ever could attending those institutions.