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| | Rothermel on Film and Philosophy |
 | | The nebbish rejects the latter's own true story of getting away with murder, fobbed off as fictional, as too lacking in compassion to be a plausible film treatment, while, of course the steadily successful filmmaker of the film, rather than the struggling documentary filmmaker he plays in the film, must think otherwise. |
 | | Since this appears as idealist essentialism in the first film, which is then 'negated by the corruption of the entrenched interests of the political and economic establishment' in _JFK_, Owen offers this paraphrase of Marx's famous eleventh thesis on Feuerbach: 'Where _Born on the Fourth of July_ simply interprets America, _JFK_ seeks to change it'. |
 | | Siddon's essay replicates the film's structure exactly: 'After all, if Francois Girard can base an entire movie on the structure of J. Bach's Goldberg Variations, why not a movie essay?' The remarks on each segment are suitably as sparse and minimalist as the segments of the film. |
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