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Brokeback's filmic structure a palindrome ?
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 05, 2020, 12:11:54 am ---
When I describe my love for the literary aspects of BBM, my son insists that all the coffee pot/wind/bear/inkblot etc. things are present in most acclaimed arty films.
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Oh? Did he give you some examples? Studying BBM has made me aware of some filmic symbology, but nothing quite as complex and interwoven as our favorite film.
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 05, 2020, 12:11:54 am ---I would also question whether the metaphor/symbolism/subtext stuff -- even if they do indeed have some -- is as complex and granular.
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I get the complex part, but what do you mean by the granular? I can hear Ennis saying "the whu..?"
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