Word: metaphores
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...Blacks. Jean Genet's symbolic clown drama uses the metaphor of race hatred to suggest the absurdity of society and life in general. At the Loeb, April 8-11 and 14-17, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
Those who agree with the tiresome cliché that there is so much to accomplish on earth, hence why bother to go into space, were not moved by the occasion. Others took it as a metaphor for all kinds of human progress, which has received an undeservedly bad name. As Goddard wrote to H.G. Wells in 1932, " 'Aiming at the stars,' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning...
...DOMINANT theme of Inserts is sex and sexual inadequacy as a metaphor for the inability to cope with life in general. The big joke during the film is that The Boy Wonder is sexually impotent: "You couldn't get his rope to rise with a magic flute." The Boy Wonder's manic need to make films is a form of sexual displacement--perhaps it is the need for gratification that drives him to make "five-and-dime films" when he has been forced from "real films." In a confrontation with Cathy Cake he is made to face the full reality...
...late '60s. In the final analysis, Scorsese fails to explain the phenomenon, but at least he fails brilliantly and courageously. Robert Altman, capped Nashville with an assassination that remained unexplained and curiously unmoving; one was left with the vague suspicion that Altman was cynically creating a sterile, objectified, metaphor for the American Situation, an image audiences could construe any damned way they pleased...
...sharpest in a parody of psychoanalysis, where the analyst (David Reiffel) exults in his patient's lapses of memory and tells him pedantically that his suffering is necessary, since "only through suffering can you achieve pain." In another beautifully controlled sequence, an imaginary monopoly game becomes a metaphor for life; in this game without dice, escape from jail is possible only through strategems appropriated directly from The Wizard...