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In Reply to: Re: It is masterly told, for good reasons: posted by Bulkington on April 19, 2004 at 09:51:57:
And Ulysses could've 'just' been about a day in Dublin...why all the fancy complications? There's nothing essential about 'a day in Dublin' that warrants digressions in nine different styles of English, or a fantastical ball attended by women named after trees.It's made, it's in the world, the structure is essential by virtue of the fact that: that's how it's structured. I think a better argument could be made that linear narrative is a cynical, needless trick. Every film should come up with a new structure.
Or, how about this: the connection people have to one another is inherently fractured and gapful; a linear telling of the same story would come down to some trite, six-degrees nonsense. It's a fairly implausible premise if taken as a straightforward story. Fracturing the narrative pushes the allegorical function of things to the fore; we have to construct the action ourselves. Memory is fractured, thought is fractured, and the lives of the people involved were broken, and each of them were in fact trying to piece them together.
I could understand this suspicion that it's a 'cynical' trick if it had some 'cynical' end. But Mel Gibson didn't make it. It wasn't the creation of a load of studio hacks. So where's the cynicism?
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Follow Ups
- "I just can't shake this feeling like a needless or cynical trick." - rhizomatic 10:17:41 04/19/04 (8)
- "And Ulysses couldn've 'just' been about a day in Dublin..." - Bulkington 11:15:00 04/19/04 (7)
- Rendering a tin man a straw man - rhizomatic 12:03:35 04/19/04 (6)
- Re: Rendering a tin man a straw man - Bulkington 13:17:16 04/19/04 (5)
- Well, well, SCREW YOU THEN! - rhizomatic 13:25:35 04/19/04 (4)
- Man, take that shit OUTSIDE - Bulkington 13:31:21 04/19/04 (3)
- Hey, back off the Rhizman...he's only fooling...I think. One never knows about commies. (nt - dennzio 16:26:57 04/19/04 (2)
- Yep. But Bulkington is going to see the film at least once more! - orejones 08:22:54 04/20/04 (1)
- Give me time! - Bulkington 09:32:18 04/21/04 (0)
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