Word: didacticism
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ANDREI TARKOVSKY'S The Sacrifice is without a doubt the most passionate cinematic account to date of the individual's struggle to keep heart and soul together in a world weighed under by the nuclear burden. It's prophecy, propaganda, and apocalyptic parable, shot through with a sense of moral...
The societal problem at the focus, and in the background of this film is poverty, rendered with realistic ambiguity, by means of shots of grey streets, shabby clothing, and simple clowning of street kids. The film makes no didactic statement about the evils of poverty, but shows us its results...
Perhaps it is time to amend the familiar high-modernist view of Rivera as a gifted painter deformed by the needs of propaganda. Sometimes his work was too openly didactic and coarse grained, too attached to populist stereotypes of love, comradeship, struggle and work. It offended the etiquette of alienation...
The film's charm lies in the fact that Paul's bomb begins ticking suspensefully not for any vast didactic reasons, but because everyone associated with it behaves in recognizably human fashion. Paul, for example, started to tinker with fissionable material down in the basement because a physicist named John...
But perhaps it is not just the writing, but the author, which points to itself: "How to keep a Journal without egotism? That is precisely the question which keeps me from writing one (for I have had just about enough egotism)." This is Barthes at his most selfindulgent. Even in...