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...wrings as much life from it as he can. Unfortunately, the pre-war scenes are too saccharine to be taken seriously, and the war-on-the-home-front scenes are too melodramatic to affect. Perhaps unwittingly, Wyler does paint am interesting picture of suburban England, with its flower shows, comfortable houses and local royalty. Dame May Whitty steals the show as a grumpy countess with a passion for home-grown flowers...
...favors. His strategy, supported by millenniums of male domination, is divide and conquer. So the caged princesses must play power games, with their rivals as opponents and their servants as pawns. Subtly, sullenly, the women flaunt their femininity -- and in doing so destroy any chance for their sisterhood to flower. Songlian, the youngest, is the first to rebel against this system. A tragic comeuppance awaits...
Leger, the cubo-futurist, also shows signs of the intense energy that characterized futurism. All the events in his painting "Fleur de Tournesol," painted in 1953, radiate with signs of motion. The petals of the flower seem to move towards the edges of the painting...
Although Leger is a contemporary of the famous Jackson Pollack, who transfers nature onto the canvas through the spontaneous splash of paint, he utilizes a more controlled approach. Leger transforms nature, in this case, the flower, onto the canvas by means of dynamic contour manipulation...
Bright orange tongues of flame roared on the TV screens placed about the stage during "Bullet the Blue Sky," serving as a forceful visual representation of the lyrics: "Plant a demon seed/ You raise a flower of fire/ See them burning crosses/ See the flames higher and higher...