British version of film noir
Highly unnatural seasons, compressing a year into a day, texture created by seasonals shifts
a lot of actors come from Abbey theaters/Kathleen more held within, theatrical groupings, Tempest, the interlude of comic characters, old mode of theatrical construction, local color blooming into something memorable
dread, anxiety, fate
oblique, no explanation, no contextualization (even though clearly Belfast), obliterating the political frontlines, church and the gangs against the govenment/monolithic power
Johnnie/the Christ figure, the artist is only interested in the allegorical rendering, not the actual suffering
city physical distortion, fun house, through the consciousness of the claustrophobic man
in a way he is unaligned, Kathleen too/ everyone is trying to claim him
Belfast: heavily hit by air-raids, the rights of minority, post-war in the ruins, tradition of expressionism in Europe, air-raid shelter, the status of children (street urchins, oral urban legends, lore among the kids), social terrain of the city (illuminating different places and different corners, ethical more than political), museum of the 19th century, Victorianism, played as grotesque in the film as a kind of ornamentation
first aid: are they making things better or worse
rigidly obeying the code
grotesque, the third code, hallucinating about himself giving oratory speeches, filtered through the expressionism (Caligari)
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