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...latitude, these books can refer to real-world issues only obliquely. Ex Machina, however, does it directly and with wry humor. Mitchell comments on the limits to his heroic powers: “People blame me for Bush in his flight suit and Arnold getting elected governor. But truth is??those things would have happened with or without...
After Benegal’s talk, toward the end of the Question and Answer session, a graduate student posed a question to him about “reality as it really is??—and why he, along with other Indian filmmakers, failed to represent it. This drew a bemused chuckle from Benegal, who answered briefly “allusion, metaphor…all these things are to be used, surely. There has to be a place for imagination...
After Benegal’s talk, toward the end of the Question and Answer session, a graduate student posed a question to him about “reality as it really is??—and why he, along with other Indian filmmakers, failed to represent it. This drew a bemused chuckle from Benegal, who answered briefly “allusion, metaphor…all these things are to be used, surely. There has to be a place for imagination...
...good postmodernists, we know that “reality as it really is?? doesn’t really exist. The strength and the weakness of this film may be precisely the extent to which it is seduced by its protagonist’s own rhetoric and rhetorical figures. Benegal doesn’t fail to convey that he has great enthusiasm and passion for the subject he has chosen. But this passion seems, too often, like the zeal of a propagandist and not enough like the reflection of an artist open to the ethical difficulties...
Well, no. But that wasn’t our point. The point was—and is??to ask ourselves why, in our day and age, we were still making such divergent choices. What pressures were siphoning us off. Why talented girls were constantly crying over bad math tests in the hallways (it was like an epidemic) and guys swore that they just didn’t “get” poetry...