Most recent public comments by Mary Pauline Pokoradi https://nowcomment.com/users/10987 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43742?scroll_to=469797 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43742?scroll_to=469797 Professional actors appear to fully fit the role, but they lack the feeling that is needed to give a documentary the final push. Regular feature films are different in that usually the stories they tell are altered. Documentaries though need to maintain an air of authenticity to deliver the impact that the director intended due to where the actor's heart lies. Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:23:28 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43742?scroll_to=469773 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43742?scroll_to=469773 Film is an art form that combines stories, visuals and sound. By being able to approach any topic from innumerable angles, new symbols can be discovered and eventually used to develop newer stories. Films that ignore this end up falling into cookie-cutter tropes that have been used till they lose any soul they had. Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:52:28 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43742?scroll_to=469772 https://nowcomment.com/documents/43742?scroll_to=469772 The sentence holds the same meanings as "seeing is believing". However, simply viewing a documentary, or any other visual work, at face value depletes possible themes and allusions the director intended. Just viewing a film is just scraping the surface. To fully understand and appreciate the full experiance, outside knowledge or research must be applied. Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:49:00 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25205?scroll_to=287509 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25205?scroll_to=287509 When the Great War broke out, hope and innocence were not the only two things that were lost. All sense of normalcy was lost, thrusting many, if not all, into a state of utter confusion. Everyone, not just writers, was forced into a infantile state where he or she needed to relearn everything they grew accustomed to. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:09 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25205?scroll_to=287507 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25205?scroll_to=287507 In the most literal sense, the way agrarian is used within this context seems to refer to more than just rural living. In this particular passage it seems to hint at more conservative and traditional ideologies, rather than rural. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:01 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25198?scroll_to=269977 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25198?scroll_to=269977 Anyone described as either a femme fatale or a sexual stalker takes on a dark connotation, which in turn makes them appear to be somewhat villainous. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:45:45 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25198?scroll_to=269940 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25198?scroll_to=269940 The term femme fatale comes from the female character type that appears in several film noir. The character type in question is usually the woman role who either directly or indirectly causes the main protagonist many problems through out the plot. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:45:45 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25186?scroll_to=260980 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25186?scroll_to=260980 Propitious simply means that the object being described had viable promise, though not entirely confirmed. In contrast, decisive alludes to definitive actions and resolutions. The language used in the final sentence concisely debunks the myth stated at the beginning of the paragraph without merely rehashing. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:45:39 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25186?scroll_to=260975 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25186?scroll_to=260975 The reviewer is tying to explain that since Faulkner's true style was unlike that of the other authors mentioned, his attempts to imitate his heroes were hopeless. This strengthens the argument that Faulkner's prose was not only different from his predecessors, but was so divergent that it became and entity on its own. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:45:38 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25186?scroll_to=260973 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25186?scroll_to=260973 The quotation forces readers' to visualize not only Faulkner's unique style, but also the immense impact his writing had. Rather than simply providing a brief description of the "Faulknerian biographer," the reviewer focuses more on building interest in the topic at hand, in this case William Faulkner. Tue, 02 Sep 2014 03:55:16 -0400