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...reverence. This exquisite poetry remains miraculously untainted by the surrounding grimy carnival of lust, corruption, and absurdity. Christopher Unborn anticipates a reader versed in the “Western canon” who will appreciate the novel’s continuous literary allusions and the periodic surfacings of a meta-textual subplot about authors and readers. It is an anarchic zoo of people, events, and opinions swarming in the monstrous, beautiful, incomprehensible Mexico of the eighties and nineties. Though the narrator’s world is constantly on the verge of hysterical collapse, his storytelling is so magnificent that...
Plus, all of this is kind of a dated argument, in a way. The real snobs that I know sound suspiciously like you, my friend. They tend to be the ones who, in a dazzling feat of meta-snobbery, decide that Pitchfork’s opinions are anathema, and doubt themselves if they agree with this merry band of traveling hipsters...
Perhaps this scene is the director’s acknowledgement of the film’s theatrical origin and his attempt to incorporate images of the stage into film’s visual idiom vis-à-vis postmodern notions of meta-narrativity...
...audience as well.The sound of stringed instruments that back the opening sequence foretell a disheartening vision of Holcomb, Kansas, closer to the world created by Capote in his “nonfiction novel,” than to the town Capote experienced. The whole movie is strangely meta. Not only are we privy to the story of a writing process, but Miller does his best to capture the mood of Capote’s version of events. And just like in “In Cold Blood,” and any good biographical movie, you stop nitpicking the details?...
...film grasps for salvation in many enjoyable moments, but never regains the momentum of the opening scenes. While Scott’s attempt to get meta with the reality television show subplot is obnoxious, Walken, in typical form, gives a hilarious cameo. The screenplay can be quite strong and very funny, but beats its jokes to death—the career-resuscitating turn from Brian Austen Green of “90210” is constantly greeted with some permutation of: “Is that the guy from 90210? He has not aged well...