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Eventually, they reunite after a long and complicated search that takesthem from their native Spain all the way to (I kid you not) northern Finland above the Arctic Circle where the sun never sets in the spring...
Some of the coincidences he presents are so unlikely as to be laughable, and much of his symbolism (the fact that both Otto and Ana's names are palindromes, the attraction of a land where the sun never sets) goes unresolved the audience knows that these elements are supposed to be revealing of something but they are too underdeveloped to truly say anything. Medem simply has too much going on in his script to tie all the pieces together, to link all of the interesting elements he presents into a thematically unified whole...
...year-old was old enough to remember hearing on the radio; nonetheless, everyone cheers gleefully with the imagined recognition of the music of their youth. Who was an ABBA fan before the great ABBA revival of the early '90s? Does anyone remember hearing the Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun," that great staple of '80s dances, when it was first released? As a cultural institution, the '80s dance plays off of a nostalgia for a past that most of us never experienced...
Obsessed with stripping away levels of reality through poetic form and controlled language, Hollander looks at art from as many directions as possible in order to get at the truth. In the last part of Figurehead, Hollander moves into evocative poems describing particular works of art (Edward Hopper's "Sun in an Empty Room" and Charles Sheeler's "The Artist Looks at Nature" are two paintings Hollander interprets poetically), effectively enfolding a work of visual art within his own poetic representation and creating Figurehead's most visceral and visually evocative poems...
SOUTH OF THE BORDER, WEST OF THE SUN By Haruki Murakami Knopf...