Is the American political system really as soulless and empty as it appears? Are the elite really corrupt and self-serving? In Hal Ashby’s view— definitely. Ashby comments on these topics in his film Being There (1979) through the characterization of Chance, an uneducated and foolish...
Theme in Being There and The Truman Show Advancement is well amongst the most positive and cheerful words we use. Yet advancement, in an ironic way, may and rather frequently does lead to harm. As technology advances rapidly, we do lose our identities and get...
Absalom displays two narrators standing at opposite poles in their understanding of time. The first, Rosa Coldfield, narrates to a patiently listening Quentin Compson what one might call the life and times of Thomas Sutpen. This rather faulty description of her act, though, immediately suggests...