Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DOMINANT theme of Inserts is sex and sexual inadequacy as a metaphor for the inability to cope with life in general. The big joke during the film is that The Boy Wonder is sexually impotent: "You couldn't get his rope to rise with a magic flute." The Boy Wonder's manic need to make films is a form of sexual displacement--perhaps it is the need for gratification that drives him to make "five-and-dime films" when he has been forced from "real films." In a confrontation with Cathy Cake he is made to face the full reality...
...scene where a female agricultural worker resists the sexual advances of the local squire, Marcus reads a significant change in social consciousness, the rise of the belief that class privileges should not afford sexual dominion over the persons of social inferiors. He connects this reading to a central theme of his book, the paradox that Victorian morality had a humanizing as well as a repressive side...
...Taking the time" is a constant theme of city people moving to small towns. They are almost bewildered that the townspeople have the time, and are willing to use it, to be helpful. After Mrs. Bernie made only two visits to the local Sears, Roebuck store, a clerk remembered her name, her children's ages and clothing sizes. Other assets: fruit and vegetables bought from neighboring farms, including a wonderfully fresh local apple juice. Down in Los Angeles, says Bernie, "socially you had to have a swimming pool. Here everyone goes to the Y." In Los Angeles, "you could...
...atmosphere of the School; the theme of boredom...
Simpson is weak and paranoid because he has a right to be, Ambler seems to be saying--you need animal cunning to get through these days, and this is Simpson's only virtue. There is no need for the facile theme of having Simpson discover his "manhood" through his experiences--only Simpson feeling immensely pleased with himself at the end of Dirty Story for hitting an armed man from behind with a blunt instrument...