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Fili is hard to understand no matter what. And it isn't English, at least not for me, which is the main or even marginal problem.In any case, English remains available in this room in many distilled varieties and has begun to demand a near specialised skill to negotiate one's way through the turbulence of arguments that unfold here at times like unnecessary labyrinths. CINEMA's been ABSENT for long. From image as cultural sign to back to phenomenology - is that what I hear some respondent hearing echoed in JMC's recent mails? In any case, a return to phenomenology is long overdue. Semiotics of the Syntagmatic, Semantic and Pragmatic variety has nearly asphyxiated film studies. The rest has been so ruthlessly accomplished by the reception theor(ies)... To return to Fili, he doesn't stand accused of any of this at all. His problem seems to me to be some kind of willful aphasia - a sort of a failed sleight at ellipsis. Sukhbir _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp