Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here, as in L'Avventura and La Notte, Antonioni's unsettled protagonist becomes increasingly the victim of a malaise that has no clear source. A television journalist named Locke (Jack Nicholson) is on assignment in a remote corner of the North African desert, trying to run to ground a story on some guerrilla fighters. The barren, blasted landscapes, the unknown language and ways of the few people Locke meets, are all transformed by Antonioni into coded messages of fate...
LOUISE SEEKS escape from the vacuousness of her own life--she feels sometimes "as if she alone were standing there, caught in a black-and-white frame while everyone else was moving around in color." To Miriam, the protagonist of "Sour or Suntanned. It Makes No Difference," the main problem, on the other hand, is how to avoid being contaminated by the grayness of other peoples' lives. To this unhappily observant child, the world is composed of an admixture of liars and fool, typified by an aunt "who spent her life thinking there was not much children could understand...
Without a misstep or a false line, the author ensnares his writer protagonist Oki Toshio in an old love. Without quite admitting to himself why he is making the trip, the hero journeys alone from Tokyo to Kyoto to hear the temple bells ring in the new year. In this city of shrines lives Otoko, with whom he had had a passionate affair 20 years earlier. She was a schoolgirl and he a young married man, and a child was stillborn from their love. For a time Otoko's grief unbalanced her. Toshio did not see her again...
...stories except the last are told through the mind of a female protagonist. Slesinger hits all parts of a woman's experience. Any woman who has ever loved a man, whether he's her second husband who has taken his first lover or not, has felt...
...women who don't understand their motivations this well, the games they've played with men have been far from liberating. For the protagonist of "Mother to Dinner", the game results in a nightmare. She is a bride of 11 months, married to a man she barely knows. He saw her in a blue dress at a party, she went out with him more than with anyone else, so they got married. And yet, she can't remove herself from the strong influence of her loving domineering mother...