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...attended a reading given by Sittenfeld last year, and she described “Man of My Dreams” as a book where each chapter depicts a different experience in the protagonist??s life that adds up to show how Hannah grows to understand the meaning of “love...
...literary collection; she peppers the text with nods to real historical heroes (Winston Churchill) and imagined ones (“the late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist and social observer”). Several hand-drawn visual aids—the astute observations of our protagonist??are scattered throughout the text. A final exam is included for the detail-oriented and/or competitive reader...
...capacities of the production team, but also for the audience’s imagination. In the penultimate scene, the unsightly vulture (Simon J. Williams ’09) clambered onto the stage and it took a moment for me to decide whether it was real or just the protagonist??s hallucination.There are few mistakes that a passionate kissing scene amid a full-cast dance number can’t redress. The closing number, “On the Air,” an anthem to short-lived fame and unrealized fortune, was so spectacular that I hardly cared...
Touching on an overabundance of social hot topics such as homosexuality, religious tolerance and fanaticism, and political dissidence, the film spreads itself too thin. The plot draws greatly from “Phantom of the Opera”—including the masked protagonist??however, the film’s love story between Evey and V feels rushed. Following her torture at the hands of V, Evey ends up predictably, but not convincingly, falling in love with her captor. Ironically,it is the semi-poignant vignette of lesbian love that overshadows the romantic bond between the film?...
...actually enhance the tone and mood of the story. In the opening scene, in which Chiyo and her sister are ripped away from their home, the lighting is very dim with dark bluish tones, and it is continually raining. This expressive lighting reoccurs throughout the film to reflect the protagonist??s suffering as a geisha —moving scenes such as when Chiyo searches for her sister in the prostitute district, when Chiyo is beaten in the courtyard, or when the geisha house mother forbids Hatsumomo to see her lover again. The film leaves almost...