[Ads-l] allegory

[Jonathan Lighter]

 According to another guy (same movie):

"the sheer density of political, religious and philosophical allegories
that Lebanon presents makes repeat viewings mandatory."

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lebanon-2010/reviews?type=&sort=&page=4

JL

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 6:41 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 2010
> https://www.miaminewtimes.com/film/lebanon-the-best-movie-of-the-year-6367660   :
> Maoz's cine-memoir is at once political allegory and existential combat
> movie — Sartre's No Exit as directed by Sam Fuller.
>
> In this movie (_Lebanon_), an untried  Israeli tank crew rolls into
> Lebanon in 1982. People on both sides get killed, and at the end. the tank
> is seen in a field of sunflowers.
>
> Allegory?  Of what?
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 8:02 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Whoa.  Should have been:
>>
>> "The combat genre reshuffles a series of potent mythologies containing
>> valiant heroes, dangerous quests, malevolent villains, recognizable
>> iconographies, repeated narrative patterns, and recurring conventions to
>> design compelling allegories to define themselves and identify America's
>> salient values."
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 7:46 PM Stanton McCandlish <smccandlish at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 1:00 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> [...] But the point here is that the word "allegory" is used in a highly
>>> dilute
>>> form not yet recognized by OED.
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe "allegory" is a new "ironic".
>>>
>>> Several other high-falutin' words get misused in a similar way
>>> ("literally", "metaphoric", "proverbial", "methodology", etc.). It's as
>>> if
>>> the writer/speaker knows that the word can fit into similar sentences and
>>> is used by others within the same topic area, but they don't actually
>>> know
>>> the precise meaning.
>>>
>>> It may relate to buzzwording in management and other professional circles
>>> ("paradigm", "sustainable", "empowering", "synergistic", etc.) – a form
>>> of
>>> pseudo-intellectualism.
>>>
>>> It seems distinct from the more slang-induced sort of meaning shift.
>>> E.g.,
>>> when my mother used "awesome", it was closer to the original sense; a
>>> millennial would not properly understand "an awesome explosion" as
>>> something frightful, while someone my age is apt to find it potentially
>>> ambiguous (our generation introduced the positive sense, but knew the
>>> older
>>> one, too). Shifts like that seem to come from intentional meaning
>>> distortions in the then-contemporary youth culture; viz. "cool" turning
>>> into "rad[ical]" in the 1980s, and odder expressions later, like "sick".
>>> The weirdest one I heard was "retarded" in the same sense of "impressive
>>> in
>>> a with-it, hip way". I only ever encountered it in Toronto in the
>>> mid-2000s, but haven't really looked further.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
>> truth."
>>
>
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>


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