Word: realism
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...Authenticity ultimately lay in the story you could tell, a tale most effective when it was at once fanciful and mundane,” Lee writes. The author manages just this: he manipulates a realism tinged with bouts of fantasy, a world where grime and dirt hug the guts and souls of individuals who would otherwise appear beautifully intact. Hector’s bruises heal within the span of a day, but the wounds beneath lie rank, sore to the touch of Sylvie’s ghost, who—preserved in his nightmares—veils her own ruin...
What makes “A Prophet” a truly great film, though, is its irreverence, which often crosses into pure magical realism. Characters and scenes are introduced with bold-lettered captions, and the incredible soundtrack has everything from Bob Dylan-sound-a-likes to Nas. The “Prophet” of the title is also intended literally—El Djebena is haunted by his first hit, a fellow Arab, who gives him visions of the future, teaches him about Islam, and smokes with him through his neck wound. It’s as if Murakami...
While Teddy tries to separate the insanity on the island from his own reality, Scorsese interlaces the more or less straightforward filming of the interrogation scenes with the hallucinogenic tragic realism of Teddy's nightmares. At Dachau, corpses stir and papers flutter; with his wife, the camera executes a 360 around the couple as Dolores dissolves in Teddy's embrace, her ashes swirling around the room. A grieving man's conversation with his dearly departed has become a peculiar subtheme in a half-dozen recent movies, from Up last summer to Edge of Darkness a few weeks...
...think it’s important to understand that my book was a work of anthropology,” Theidon said. “The film draws upon my ethnographic research, and adds a powerful touch of magical realism...
...crude, commercial - and effective. Perry has tapped into his audience's shared experiences, hopes and worries, the need for a little escape, a little realism and a few moral lessons. I'm not part of his target audience - just as, I imagine, most of Perry's fans can't relate much to the glib, angst-ridden, upper-middle-class white professionals who populate so many of the plays that New York critics write encomiums to. But the crowd leaves Perry's show on a communal high. All Noel Coward gave me was a Champagne hangover...