Questions posed by EWS

[Richard Romeo]

>
>David writes:
> >All this serious analysis makes me question the first comments to this 
>list
> >saying the movie was horrible
>
keith:
>Not for myself, at least.  What I find seriously disturbing are the social 
> >issues (to which I rarely pay any attention) in the film that are 
>seriously >behind the times.
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The spectre of AIDS and blind lust behind the times?


And that much of the symbolic structure (addressed in
>the original "Questions posed by EWS" post) is petty and paper-thin.  Of 
> >course the pass word is Fidelio, of course he finds the mask in bed with 
> >his wife, etc etc.
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who said symbols necessarilly need to be obtuse and overly complex.  You'll 
find even the most simple symbols underlie something more complex.

  I suspect that much of the negativity also centers
>around the heavy-handedness and self-consciousness of the film's being 
> >disturbing.  It's not as disturbing as it thinks it is (my wife and I 
>often >found ourselves chuckling uncontrollably at those disturbing 
>moments, Keith
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child prostitution, AIDS, these are scary. We are overtly familiar w/ these 
things.  Still creepy every time ya hear about it. To think Harford was 
close to losing his sense of reality, and just barely avoided going over the 
edge was pretty compelling to me. Think of all the instances he coulda made 
the wrong choice or not been helped out.  He's lucky at the end of the 
flick, and he knows it, but it's come at a price, a big price.  I also 
thought the music was appropriate to the action, sparse at times, baroque in 
others.

Rich


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