Word: confusionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In what has got to be one of cinema's most striking scenes, Laura comes back to life. Well, sort of. Mark had fallen asleep staring at Laura's portrait, and wakes up to find Laura entering the apartment. The look on his face is one of absolutely sublime confusion...
Events prove much more mundane, but events aren't the issue. That instant of confusion says as much about love as anything that has ever been put on film. As it happens, Laura was not murdered but was away for the weekend; the dead girl turns out to be a...
Why this confusion? Frighten the Horsesaims to "cover queer and women's issues" as well as feature erotic articles which could not be published elsewhere. In so doing, FTH encompasses a hodgepodge of seriousness and silliness regarding the most sensitive sexual and political issues. Most of its serious work--opinion...
The confusion of FTH's image is compounded by its inclusion of a few well-written, powerful works. Sigfried Gold's ironic "Coherent Explanation of Straight While Male Sexuality" has some clever insights, its narrator complaining. "I can't stand straight men: they don't lust after me. All they...
That mix of confusion and spellbinding tension is Pinter's trademark: it is never quite clear what is happening, but whatever it is, it is urgently important. The menacing mysticism reaches a peak in No Man's Land, a series of drawing-room encounters soured by a barroom aura of...