Eric Bana's international career was formed off the back of his creepily charismatic imitation of Mark "Chopper" Read in Andrew Dominik's playful self-reflexive character portrait, one of Australian cinema's most colourful and memorable biopics.
But again, the character in the interview is yet another version of me … WS: It's like matryoshka dolls, isn't it – and perhaps the reason you heart's still in it (if it is), is precisely because you've created the self-reflexive character.
Burge's proposal is that privileged self-knowledge has a reflexive, self-referential character.
The reason is often less about creative bankruptcy (although there is that) than a reflexive hope that characters or stories that connected in one format — say, a comic book called "Iron Man" — will, when properly massaged, also connect in the darkness of the theater.
On this view, the intentional character of reflexive awareness may be understood as corresponding to the immediate sense of embodied agency that is characteristic of internal states such as desire, pain, etc.
Sucking it down is a reflex, our first reflexive gratification.
The character zi 自 is a reflexive pronoun, and ran 然 means to be in a certain way.
Is there, I wonder, a Kaufman syndrome that compels Charlie always to write complex, self-reflexive fictions that turn the rules of character and story inside out? "I don't think so.
This approach has two general merits: it manifests the probabilistic character of roadmaps and provides a reflexive view on possible technology development with due regard to technological context and market environment.
The dialogue itself is fast, funny, and constantly self-reflexive – one of the new episodes sees a character talking about sharing Netflix passwords, followed hastily by a "REDACTED SCENE" card.
There's little pleasure to be derived, for instance, from the leaden dialogue — Steven Gaydos's script fits together superbly but strains to give the characters anything to say — yet Hellman's reflexive modernism, a sleek insulation for burning passions, is the very image of joyful artistic idealism in the face of bitter worldly wisdom.
