Yeah, Dark Knight -- thanks for that. Dark Knight was an exploitive film, but it did bring back some of the 9/11 chill. Wall-E did something of the same, too, and perhaps for this reason they both struck me as vital. Neither so bleak, though. Both are as much romances as they are anything else: wall-e and the joker made good use of their barren (unpeopled, with the former; peopled but with boring, predictable people, with the latter) landscapes, but really come to life when the love of their lives comes into their lives (with both batman and eve being reserved, muscled, bad-asses, interestingly enough). The batman and joker romance as part of the Romance montage, then? I would like to have seen that. Would have shown the Oscars got the point.
Patrick McEvoy-Halston November 28 at 10:36 AM Why does Severian make almost no effort to develop sustained empathy for Jolenta -- no interest in her roots, what made her who she was -- even as she features so much in the first part of the narrative? Her fate at the end is one sustained gross happenstance after another... Severian has repeated sex with her while she lay half drugged, an act he argues later he imagines she wanted -- even as he admits it could appear to some, bald "rape" -- but which certainly followed his discussion of her as someone whom he could hate so much it invited his desire to destroy her; Severian abandons her to Dr. Talus, who had threatened to kill her if she insisted on clinging to him; Baldanders robs her of her money; she's sucked at by blood bats, and, finally, left at death revealed discombobulated of all beauty... a hunk of junk, like that the Saltus citizens keep heaped away from their village for it ruining their preferred sense ...
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