Word: metaphores
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...finish the job. And so he drives the laborers beyond their endurance. He steals food, then rations it. He intercepts calls and news from home "for their own good." He quarantines them from entertainment, and even from attending church. It takes no Soviet censor to find a political metaphor here: Nowak is the Polish statesman-Gierek or Kania or Jaruzelski-who must act the ruthless boss to satisfy his own ruthless boss. It is difficult, it is wrong, but it must be done to survive. Thus does the liberal turn totalitarian...
This director bears no resemblance whatsoever to his armchair counterparts in Hollywood. For Werner Herzog, filming his latest effort Fitzcarraldo, only hauling this massive ship over the mountain would properly illustrate the central metaphor of his movie. Perpetually choosing the most difficult route possible to achieve his goals, Herzog scorns the shortcuts and props that usually dominate his medium...
Music is a natural metaphor to Sennett, for he spent his boyhood training to be a professonal cellist. While getting his A.B. at the University of Chicago, he also was accepted as a student of conducting under Monteux. At the age of 21, as he came onstage to begin a cello recital, the nervous tension became too great. "I vomited into my cello," he recalls with a grimace. "I can laugh about it now, but at the time it was . .." Words fail...
...sleight of hand tips the hand of Director James Lapine. This will be an evening of chipper invention, but one that will skirt the deeper, darker depths of this forest, where magic turns to mystery and the tumbling appearance of the fairy kingdom's wayward spirits becomes a metaphor for the wayward heart's enigmatic leapings...
...sense of humor. And Max Cantor shines as the ridiculous subjectivist poet who tells Alan Norman that all objects exist only in the poet's mind: "If I shut my eyes they all disappear." The poet's theory is broken when the dog bites his hand, a simple, timely metaphor for the coming world...