As the movie continues, and certain events that
came to define America and its character — particularly the Civil War — touch the lives of the Dickinsons, and we hear more of Emily's
work in
voiceover, the movie's style becomes less constricted, more fluid, but still retains an unearthly quality.
Or whether perhaps we are just seeing all the fragments of Cathryn's latest children's fiction (which she periodically
works on and narrates in
voiceover)
coming together in (psycho) dramatic form, like in the Coen brothers» Barton Fink or François Ozon's Swimming Pool.