"Angels in America" is filled with wishes, hope, rabbinical anger, fantasy — and the kinds of errors in characterization that are bound to happen when big ideas come fast and furious, and authentic characters with beautifully confused intentions serve or get run over by those ideas.
It could also be the tiny heads she places atop each elongated form that confuse her intention.
Welles also had a special magic beyond this: he could give élan to scenes that were confused in intention, so that the movie seems to go from dramatic highlight to highlight without lagging in between.
But he also never confused good intentions with good results.
"But it's never a simple matter, and the climactic journey to London, in which Billy and his father are interviewed by the ballet school's admissions panel, is charged with nuances of shame, pride and confused good intentions.
To criticisms of this kind, some consequentialists have argued that one must not confuse the intentions of the person engaged in the practice of holding responsible with the function of the overall practice.
Intentions are confusing but the prospects are enticing.
Fatally for his garbled argument, in the final analysis Livingstone confuses agency and intention.
"And I think people may have gotten confused about our intentions over the last few years," he added.
After Putin sent approximately 30 warplanes to Latakia, US officials publicly declared themselves confused by Russian intentions.
