Ah. Thank you. Took at least two renderings to get it down to three or four sentences.
We throw a mirror upon the world, and the "reality" we see although most cannot argue that there are real things to be felt and interpreted through that lens we create can be shattered by a good artist, and I guess I define that at least in part as the magician who has not just the skills, the tricks, the craft, who can break through the viewers or readers mirror of reality to cause them to reconsider, to ask the the question.
"I don't think that I would be capable. If someone did anything to one of my children, I can very easily see myself turning into a murderer, literature or no literature, and I can't imagine an argument that would disssuade me. But there _was_ an an argument. And these women put it forward. And in the case of Gelman, it achieved something better than mere revenge. And that I believe is another possible reading."
Ah. Have you seen the film 21 Grams? You should rent it sometime, it is very much like The breaking of the funhouse mirrors into fragments and then reassembling that's meant to break down the preconceptions?
The story is a revenge story on the surface, yet so much more. If you hear the plot synopsis, you think, much as I did, I've seen this before or heard this tale before. But how they render it breaks down your perceptions of it. No longer do you see it from one or two perspectives, but actually three or four.
It is about a woman losing her family in a car accident and asking the man who got her husband's heart to kill the driver who did it. That's the surface tale. But the director/writer throughs it inside a funhouse mirror and breaks it.
I haven't read anything on _Hero_.
I've read a couple of reviews. And seen reactions to it online. Decided it depends on the viewer or the viewer's lense. If you are a *visual* person and love metaphor, you may have gotten more out of the movie than someone who is more into dialogue or literal meanings. Not sure. I know the person I saw it with, did *not* like it at all. In fact as time wears on, he likes it less and less. While I, in contrast, did like it, and find as time wears on, enjoy it more and more. At first I wished I had the language...now, I'm not so certain. So much of the movie is told with visuals, not words. Words are conveyed through pictures in the film. And movement. Watching Hero to me, felt like watching a series of colorful dances, each conveying new perspectives and meanings.
but the sacrifice of the hero was read by me as in pursuit of the epiphany and education of the one who had the power, the breaking of his vision to admit the possibility of a different way
Yes, that was my reading of it as well. The one who had the power may not do anything about that "new way" off the bat, but perhaps in time...once he processes it, the hero's sacrifice will have had a purpose. And perhaps the reason the hero is left nameless, with the barest sketch of a background, is so symbolically he can represent all those the one with power has hurt in his quest to unite the country, the terrible price, the terrible pain, and the need for retribution - the wound, such violence leaves behind, which may be nameless to the one with power until he recognizes it?
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Re: Fiction is all discovery..*
Date: 2004-09-12 07:11 am (UTC)Ah. Thank you. Took at least two renderings to get it down to three or four sentences.
We throw a mirror upon the world, and the "reality" we see although most cannot argue that there are real things to be felt and interpreted through that lens we create can be shattered by a good artist, and I guess I define that at least in part as the magician who has not just the skills, the tricks, the craft, who can break through the viewers or readers mirror of reality to cause them to reconsider, to ask the the question.
"I don't think that I would be capable. If someone did anything to one of my children, I can very easily see myself turning into a murderer, literature or no literature, and I can't imagine an argument that would disssuade me. But there _was_ an an argument. And these women put it forward. And in the case of Gelman, it achieved something better than mere revenge. And that I believe is another possible reading."
Ah. Have you seen the film 21 Grams?
You should rent it sometime, it is very much like The breaking of the funhouse mirrors into fragments and then reassembling that's meant to break down the preconceptions?
The story is a revenge story on the surface, yet so much more. If you hear the plot synopsis, you think, much as I did, I've seen this before or heard this tale before. But how they render it breaks down your perceptions of it. No longer do you see it from one or two perspectives, but actually three or four.
It is about a woman losing her family in a car accident and asking the man who got her husband's heart to kill the driver who did it.
That's the surface tale. But the director/writer throughs it inside a funhouse mirror and breaks it.
I haven't read anything on _Hero_.
I've read a couple of reviews. And seen reactions to it online. Decided it depends on the viewer or the viewer's lense. If you are a *visual* person and love metaphor, you may have gotten more out of the movie than someone who is more into dialogue or literal meanings.
Not sure. I know the person I saw it with, did *not* like it at all. In fact as time wears on, he likes it less and less. While I, in contrast, did like it, and find as time wears on, enjoy it more and more. At first I wished I had the language...now, I'm not so certain.
So much of the movie is told with visuals, not words. Words are conveyed through pictures in the film. And movement. Watching Hero to me, felt like watching a series of colorful dances,
each conveying new perspectives and meanings.
but the sacrifice of the hero was read by me as in pursuit of the epiphany and education of the one who had the power, the breaking of his vision to admit the possibility of a different way
Yes, that was my reading of it as well. The one who had the power may not do anything about that "new way" off the bat, but perhaps in time...once he processes it, the hero's sacrifice will have had a purpose. And perhaps the reason the hero is left nameless, with the barest sketch of a background, is so symbolically he can represent all those the one with power has hurt in his quest to unite the country, the terrible price, the terrible pain, and the need for retribution - the wound, such violence leaves behind, which may be nameless to the one with power until he recognizes it?