Can anyone offer an example of literature that cannot "evoke the many layers
of experience."? If one looks close, and thinks hard enough, layers of
ambiguity can be found in even an apparently simple, straightforward story.
Biblical scholars, of various ideologies, do this all the time - and I am
sure it could be done with the upcoming film, "Changeling", with which Michael
began this thread.
I suppose it's not impossible to make a great film around that idea -- but not
if the *best* brief description of its story is that it's about "a 1920s
event in LA in which a woman's infant was abducted, and when the police return
the child, she suspects it's a different boy"
Michael called that "mundane" -- and it certainly promises a superficial, even
if stylish, thriller to me.
But ff it were more about "a woman who tries to raise a child she suspects is
not hers" -- that might make for a good movie - where the emphasis is more on
making a life than solving a whodunit.
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I've said it many times that I use the word ambiguity in its poetic sense,
that is, to evoke the many layers of experience. Metaphor is the mode of
transit from one layer to another. I don't mean vagueness. I think I took for
granted that any sort of ambiguity or metaphor is not necessarily the mark of
greatness but that its use is necessary to greatness (in literature).
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