Alan Fair,
Could you explain what "truth" you think is revealed by this
"fortuitous juxtaposition"?
> . This moment is, to paraphraseAndre Breton, the fortuitous
> juxtaposition of (in)congruent objects;two objects in a kind of
> accidental montage that reveal a truth inherentin the fiction of
> Kazan's film.
I understand that newsreel footage of an organized Slovak Nazi
demonstration against Jews c. 1938 is juxtaposed against a fictional
postwar situation of social discrimination against a Jew. But what
is the "truth" that is revealed? Kazan's film first appeared in the
shadow of WW2 and the revelation of Holocaust. Certainly the
audience understood what anti-Semitism was at that time and what kind
of a liberal appeal for change it was promoting. Even much later, or
today, the film rather clearly and obviously shows anti-Semitism to
be a bad thing, backward, unfair, undemocratic, etc.
I don't quite see what connection (or conclusion from juxtaposition)
you are making.
Chuck Kleinhans
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