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...songs convey a bitterness about almost anything a person could be bitter about--death, frustrated sex, lost lovers, futile dreams, old age. The songs show us lonely, defeated people who have been hurt so many times by others that all they can do is dream inefficacious dreams and retreat into...
...like any other, and the same principles of journalism applied here. Therefore, first and foremost, the reviewer gave a plot summary, often in great detail; he listed the players, and, as it were, "reported" the general mood or impact that the experience of seeing the film was likely to convey...
Faulkner's life exudes a mysterious aura which the pedestrian and meticulous treatment by Blotner fails to convey. Those cherished myths--the rum runs in the Gulf of Mexico, Sherwood Anderson's promise to get Soldier's Pay published if he did not have to read it--are set straight as if "for the record." Pleasant Sunday picnics come across as only data...
...ceremonial masks of the Indian tribes are less wild than the Eskimos'--they have less fear behind them. The simplified form of an Athabaskan fox-mask, a single piece of wood, doesn't convey a belief in the power behind it. The lush countryside of the Canadian coastal forest might explain this art's concentration on repeating patterns, and these forms are more refined than the colorless, stark Eskimo style. But they are also less striking. The white man's influence shows most clearly in an "Octopus bag" made of felt, cotton, calico and brightly colored polychrome beads--all brought...
Because these cinematic effects were central to Bergman's purpose, any stage adaptation is bound to convey only part of his message. When Elisabeth breaks into tears after looking at a picture of a Vietnamese monk setting himself afire, not everyone in the theatre can be sure just what she sees; when her husband arrives, all the ambiguity present in the encounter in the movie is lost...