The story, that is, of someone whom history considers a traitor, but whose tragedy was to love his leader too well, and to expect a miraculous revelation of divinity when no such thing was possible.
Manville plays her not as a victim but as an intelligent and passionate woman whose tragedy is that she is all too aware that by creating myths around her dissolute husband and living a lie she has fed the hungry ghosts that will destroy her.
His greatest asset is Kwasi Boachi, whose tragedy is just what makes him such a perfect cultural go-between.
And it tells parallel stories: of a tragic Trojan War figure and a brave young soldier in the Iraq war whose tragedy is just as ruinous.
She creates characters who, despite their tenacity and will, are somehow flattened against the landscape, beaten down, and whose tragedy is more everyman and woman than individual.
When near the end the two decide to meet, the virtual becomes real with results whose tragedy is exceeded only by the towering irony that Mr. Grass has so spectacularly achieved.
Where a male director might have selected five ready-for-my-close-up babes for the roles, Sofia Coppola has managed to cast and direct them as a collective, girls whose tragedy is precisely that they never had a chance to become remarkable or individual.
I had seen my idolisation turn into a rare look at a misunderstood dude whose tragedy is being a genius in something most people can't relate to.
I had seen my idolization turn into a rare look at a misunderstood dude whose tragedy is being a genius in something most people can't relate to.
Beth is one of several women in the story "Dying for Love" who don't, in fact, die for love, but hang on to the "handrail" of familiar things, and whose tragedies are relieved by "a saving capacity for digression and recovery".
