The frank power of this woman's unmediated voice, reckoning with her husband's murder at the hands of her political liberators, and asking only for recognition and an apology, hardly seems to call for narrative elaboration.
Please, will you tell them to come find me?" The frank power of this woman's unmediated voice, reckoning with her husband's murder at the hands of her political liberators, and asking only for recognition and an apology, hardly seems to call for narrative elaboration.
But Scorsese's film, for all its narrative elaborations, is a wrenched-apart object that, despite the intricacies of its script, exists (like the cinema of the forties and fifties that it virtually psychoanalyzes) mainly through its remarkably powerful images.
"I had to get out of the room at some point," Mr. Fishburne said of the narrative's elaboration.
Potential for narrative and symbolic elaboration may be greatest for Penba Wangdu, also of Tibet, and Tenzin Norbu, of Nepal, though their paintings on view here are disappointingly decorous.
The Annals (Cornelii Tacti ab excessu divi Augusti), following the traditional form of yearly narrative with literary elaboration on the significant events, covered the period of the Julio-Claudian dynasty from the death of Augustus and the accession of Tiberius, in 14, to the end of Nero's reign, in 68.
The over-elaboration of narrative devices in both movies suggests that the directors sensed that there was nothing at the heart of their stories to stir the audience.
But ultimately, the premise of Martin's sudden, inexplicable celebrity is impossible to believe and the elaboration of the narrative too slight to sustain a feature film of this length.
In "Reconstruction," the most careful elaboration of the freedom narrative, he brilliantly defined the contest over emancipation and Reconstruction as a fight between competing versions of freedom.
The narrative here amounts to a detailed elaboration of Lowry's opening defense of his institution's longstanding appreciation for American modernism, and it is done exceedingly well.
By comparison, the forms of fable and parable are relatively stable yet even they may play down the moral idea or the mysterious element and emphasize instead the narrative interest, which then results in an elaboration of the form.
