Steven L. wrote:
> Tim Weaver wrote:
>> What is it?
>
> The poster "rwgibson" (who isn't online right now) had suggested that
> Lost falls into the category of "magical realism", which has the
> following characteristics:
>
> * The characters' reactions to the 'inexplicable' is key to the
> definition of Magic-Realism: inexplicable phenomona occur in extremely
> mundane cir***stances and the character(s) tend to not respond
> adequately (or at all) to the supernatural or magic nature of the event.
> On the contrary, they often treat the magical event as an annoyance, a
> setback, or an unwanted obligation.
> * The fantastic elements may be intuitively "logical" but are never
> explained
> * Characters accept rather than question the logic of the magical
> element
> * Exhibits a richness of sensory details
> * Uses symbols and imagery extensively. Often phallic imagery is
> used without the reader/viewer consciously noticing it.
> * Emotions and the ***uality of the human as a social construct are
> often developed upon in great detail
> * Distorts time so that it is cyclical or so that it appears absent.
> Another technique is to collapse time in order to create a setting in
> which the present repeats or resembles the past
> * Inverts cause and effect, for instance a character may suffer
> before a tragedy occurs
> * Incor****ates legend or folklore
> * Presents events from multiple perspectives, such as those of
> belief and disbelief or the colonizers and the colonized
> * Uses a mirroring of either past and present, astral and physical
> planes, or of characters
> * Ends leaving the reader uncertain, whether to believe in the
> magical interpretation or the realist interpretation of the events in
> the story
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism
>
> Those characteristics sound familiar in the context of Lost? Yes?
Some of the Twilight Zone episodes approached magic realism too. Not
the pure science fiction ones, but the surrealistic ones in which you're
not sure if what you're seeing is real, or a hallucination, or something
supernatural.
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Steven L.
Email: sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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