flummery
I detected an echo of good British common sense in the face of a bit too much Gallic flummery
I detected an echo of good British common sense in the face of a bit too much Gallic flummery
no denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis, no semiology which cannot ultimately be acknowledged as a semioclasm
quoting Barthes from somewhere in Myth Today
[...] This is what Lynch is about in this movie: both innocence and damnation; both sinned-against and sinning. Laura Palmer in Fire Walk with Me is both "good" and "bad," and yet also neither: she's complex, contradictory, real. And we hate this possibility in movies; we hate this "_both…