Word: fantasyã
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...Similarly, as the play progresses, the line between reality and fantasy??tenuous to begin with—breaks down entirely. Characters who were bellboys in the first half (played by Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07, Allan S. Bradley ’11, and Sam D. Stuntz ’10) become figures from Rosepettle’s past as she describes her relationship with her dead husband. They later embody the plant and fish of the epic battle scene, allowing the play to fully embrace an element of surrealism as it heads toward its remarkable climax...
...cinematic elements work together so seamlessly that the actors and the effects eventually merge. The dramatic finesse of the ensemble cast build upon del Toro’s vision, although no one person outshines it. Through diverse aesthetic orchestration—adulthood and childhood, violence and peace, reality and fantasy??del Toro has achieved the unheard-of: a film that satisfies viewers’ various tastes without compromising artistic vision. —Staff writer Mollie K. Wright can be reached at mkwright@fas.harvard.edu...
Fantastic stories often stray into fantasy??who knew? As if faux-memoir writer James Frey weren’t enough, hip literary circles have been rocked by the revelation that the author JT LeRoy is just a phantom of two washed-up rockers’ imaginations. LeRoy, HIV-positive queer writer of “autobiographical” childhood truck-stop prostitute tales, does not exist, and his rags-to-riches memoirs are a hoax. Oh, the critics bemoan, what happened to the importance of being honest? Where lies the lost virtue of authenticity? A better question might...
Then again, that may not sound so fictional. But the film’s fantasy world never draws the audience in because Chester never commits to the fantasy??s efficacy. Every public display of homosexual affection is accompanied by a barrage of beer bottles from a New Jersey hick or a self-conscious sermon about New York’s gay-bashing epidemic...
What baseball does is it fools you to believe that you can forever combine reality with fantasy??that everyday life is tied to an outcome of a game...