Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bergman does not mean his story to be taken solely on the literal level. Von Sydow is also the Creative Artist beset by the bourgeoisie; the island is a metaphor of man's tragic isolation from :he mainland of humanity. Though he has glaring faults as a scenarist, Director Bergman is supreme in handling us troupe; the actors, like Sven Nykvist's phosphorescent photography can ender reality and surreality without missing a heartbeat. Von Sydow is gothically brilliant as the madman; Ullman's ragedienne reinforces her position-already secured by Persona-as one of Scandmavia...
...with the superstructure rather than the foundation, consequences many times removed from their causes are made to combine almost chemically into a facade which distracts from and undercuts the basic confict, ultimately vanishing with great speed and leaving the conflict solved. The effect is that of an unforgivably mixed metaphor which on second glance--and, therefore, also on the glance of the subconscious--reduces itself to a gut consistency. Hence satisfaction...
Senator Henry Jackson went ah-ah-ah like an Evinrude. Senator William Fulbright rattled off the word commitment 15 times in one interview. And Congressman Gerald Ford got so hung up on a metaphor about the "ship of state" in "a storm-tossed sea" that Reasoner correctly observed: "People were beginning to feel seasick...
...works. The first movement of Op. 111 is an uncanny mirror of Beethoven's temperament--taking ideas and treating them by turns with violence and lyricism. Indjic's inflections seemed motivated by custom, or perhaps were produced by rote, rather than by any internalized understanding of the metaphor. The superficiality became most evident in the absolute lack of communication in the lyrical Andante of the "Appasionata...
...they are manipulated by the tribunes or swayed by mass instinct. The crowd is conceived as pantomime, the movies as a sophisticated blend of film and drama, and the two styles belong to two different kinds of production. Shakespeare made the crowd puppet-like enough; Babe extends the metaphor and is heavy-handed...