Word: theming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born said the lighting theme will create a "strong image of a city that is tied together...
...shake our heads, our faces almost embarrassed in the presence of this violent blank: What is the text trying to teach us? This merciless--almost preposterous--pounding, these ingenious yet repetitive variations on the theme: they mean something, don't they? They've got to. Some cruelly overwritten sermon on Old Joe's hubris? There must be a secret beneath the surface, down there, full-fathom five, beneath the choppers and clatter of media...
...crucified). It may seem unfair to criticize a movie because it is its own story, and not Arthur Schnitzler's. But this film has Dream Story's narrative structure, and throughout the movie--especially when the novella's closing moral is repeated verbatim--Kubrick commits himself to Schnitzler's theme...
...that theme is never realized. The problem is that Kubrick's vision of sexuality needs character revelations--a dramatic device which he has always detested. Kubrick is only interested in the generic character, the allegory which reveals human nature rather than idiosyncrasy...
Unlike the hard guitar dabblings on past works like his paranoid cover of Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," or the insistent dance of his "James Bond" theme, Play is subtler in sound. Moby intricately combines gospel and blues samples with modern instrumentation to form a hybrid of old and new. Songs like the haunting "Why does my heart feel so bad?" and the jaunty "Run On" are distinctly modern yet also contain profound echoes of the past...