... , finally stopping to pause for several seconds at an open bedroom door, drawing emphasis on the subject of the shot. Madeleine, who is shown to be sound asleep inside. When the telephone rings with a jarring sound, she whirls around to face him, the camera zooming in on her startled expression. Her obvious disorientation and fear, coupled with her nakedness, paint her as ... she inhabits. This inability to love a real flesh-and-blood woman is what fueled him to obsessively attempt to mould Judy into Madeleine, in later scenes, to explode in a ruthless fury upon discovering the truth, an...

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... Japanese authority meant that any action on the part of government could be overruled by recourse to an imperial prerogative. As present in the opinion of some Japanese scholarship, 'the sound and fury of the party battle could never be more than diversionary in the broad sweep of an absolutism built on Emperor, land, and capital.'6 It seems then, that democracy, in ... ...

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