Word: recursion
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Betrayal is an idea that again recurs in the symbolic piece, “140,” which draws its name from the number of the sonnet that inspired it. The staging is simple yet effective. As the vignette begins, the stage is partially lit, with two characters in...
And when the bits are more inspired, wow. There is a death-by-falling sequence that would be tremendously clever even if it weren’t mocking falls in musicals such as Les Miserables. And all of the scenes that depict dead characters are accomplished not only with the...
But Hitchcock wasn't all about seriousness and suspense. His trademark, a cameo in each of his films, shows the director's admiration of a good joke. His role as a casual passerby - as a man reading a newspaper or a passenger on a train - recurs 32 times in one...
This notion of two against the world often recurs in the Japanese films that have won international acclaim. Nagisa Oshima's 1976 In the Realm of the Senses was banned and cheered for its explicit portrayal of a sadomasochistic affair; the lovers found sexual pleasure in pain, even to the...
This is what recurs in his nightmares--the lack of control. "I am back on the ship, but I am not captain, and there is no captain in command." Some nights he cannot sleep at all, lying awake in a cold sweat, holding his wife Jill.