Word: metaphores
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...Williams, part of which was made into a NET television show. The company has begun direct service linking a dozen colleges with major cities and has hired student representatives on campus to promote Greyhound. Kerrigan claims that many students see the bus as a sort of folk symbol-a metaphor for reality, a part of the new open-road mystique-and that they refer to travelers who take planes as "plastic people." In the last year, references to Greyhound or bus have bounced up in several popular songs, notably the country music hit Thank God and Greyhound. Sample lyric...
...historical film as a metaphor for contemporary ills has become an overworked convenience. The Great White Hope failed because it tried to use the tragic plight of Heavyweight Jack Johnson to illustrate the ugliness of today's racial strife. In its bloody account of an 1864 massacre of a Cheyenne tribe, Soldier Blue announced in labored fashion that the U.S. military is more barbaric than it cares to admit. But whatever their weaknesses, both films were at least rooted in historical truth. Burn!, by the usually brilliant Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers), lacks even that validity...
Hedged Bet. To round out the metaphor Walker is hired ten years later by the British sugar company that controls the island. His job: destroy the guerrilla leader he has created. At the end, of course, Dolores is martyred and Walker is destroyed...
Those sequences which employ metaphor also have limited success, for their meaning comes less from their formal mode than from a semi-representational correspondence to real events. One sequence finds Berto singing scales on "oh." Leaud, standing directly behind her, begins to strangle her and say "ah"; she falters, begins brokenly saying "ah," and with Leaud's approval ends singing scales on "ah." Because the sequence represents something far more awful than the action it presents, it cannot avoid a note of falseness. It is not at all suggestive formally because the meaning to which it refers bears no relation...
...this point, The Edible Woman assumes the force of a banal dream that has turned, without the dreamer's quite noticing, into a nightmare. The metaphor of cannibalism takes over until all the characters appear as predators. The only hope allowed Marian at the end: if she becomes a consumer again herself, life may appear "normal" to her once more...