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Article: Moviegoing and Golem-Making: The Case of Blade Runner
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- Journal of Film and Video
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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TO GO TO A FILM IN A CERTAIN MOOD IS to yearn for Eden, the world redeemed beyond decay and the self restored to a grace. Viewed in this light, the exquisite forms on the screen-a Grant or Loy-prove realizations of the potential for truth and beauty and goodness that most of us possess but fail to actualize. But in worshipping these artificial shapes, one risks experiencing the opposite of Eden: imprisonment in the superficial conventions of the fallen world. Grant and Loy as they appear in the picture-house are crass commodities as much as ideal models, tools of greed as much as holy schools. If mimicking these figures can lead to the miraculous realization of noble possibility, it can ...
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