IVIV another Coen Bros' resonance--and more?
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 28 13:37:34 CDT 2009
p. 6 'This picture of Doc's showed a Southern Califronia beach that never was", etc.....
Did this remind anyone else of the postcard of the girl on the beach in The Coen Bros.' Hollywood story, "Barton Fink"? It becomes the last shot of the movie. I've seen it as a doubly resonant 'dream factory' image...dreamy [unreal] scenes we dreamily long for...
As written in IV, this Sou Calif beach 'that never was', is a(nother) internal metaphor for ...paradise?..Shambala (symbolically)...Doc's
delusions? as he looks at it when he doesn't want to look thru the "the glass-type" one. And, usuallly wehn smoking weed....see "contrast knob of Creation"... "it would have an underglow, a luminous edge that the night was to turn epic"....
With his lawyer named Saunch, is this where we get Doc as Quixote? A knight against the night about to turn epic---joke?
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