Ned Benson crafted together two films that premiered last year at Toronto. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. There were two versions of this film. Him & Her. Him followed the husband played by James McAvoy, and Her followed Eleanor played by Jessica Chastain. The same story is told, but told from two completely different perspectives. Clint Eastwood did a similar thing with Flags of our Fathers & Letters from Iwo Jima, focusing on the same conflict but from opposing sides of the war. Rigby is on a much smaller scale, clearly, which is what excites me most about this collective. Audiences can choose whether they want to see the film from the husband’s perspective or the wife’s. There is a third version as well, which is called “Them”, which combines the two films into a shorter, more commercial film. This choice is very rarely an option to cinema goers, and is the first step in the direction of more active audiences in cinema. They choose the story they want to see. The question will end up being, how can we make cinema more interactive than this. It’s clear this film will have a limited run due to the obscurity of how audiences see it, but will this film pioneer a flurry of this type of cinema into mainstream culture?