Word: motifs
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...album’s only variety is provided by “Girlfriend” and “I Can Do Better,” and even then, the only slightly different line “Hey, hey, you!” is a central motif. That title track is perhaps best representative of everything that goes wrong on the disc. The staleness of the song’s lyrics perfectly complements the deja-entendu feeling one gets upon listening to it. In a brief, speak-singing interlude, she spells out the words that make up her lyrics while...
...Cannes regular described Oldboy as a Tarantino movie that Tarantino would be afraid to make. It surely has its quota of Quentinian quirks, including cool bad guys dressed in black, a revenge motif that won't quit, some acts of abuse that would have given de Sade appreciative shivers - and, most important, an expert's joy in expanding and subverting the rules of the genre...
...Cannes regular described Oldboy as a Tarantino movie that Tarantino would be afraid to make. It surely has its quota of Quentinian quirks, including cool bad guys dressed in black, a revenge motif that won't quit, some acts of abuse that would have given de Sade appreciative shivers - and, most important, an expert's joy in expanding and subverting the rules of the genre...
...Another interesting motif was that of the eponymous umbrella; many of them were suspended from the ceiling in the background of the play, and in one sequence a character donned a rainbow-colored hat shaped like an umbrella. Although its presence was significant, the rich potential of the umbrella as an image was not exploited as fully as that of the eyeball...
...mark a woman fully submerged just under the surface of the ocean. Because of the high contrast and abstraction of the photograph, the woman is, at first, hidden from the viewer. Discovering her amidst the jumble of bright squiggles becomes an act of undressing her. The water-as-clothing motif appears in several of the other photographs, and is part of the larger allegory of water-as-mother. Clergue’s nudes are not merely in the water, but are absorbed in it, as if flesh and water were the same transmutable substance. If water is mother in Clergue?...