![]() ![]() Poland cannot be other than Poland as Wiktor cannot be a man outside of Poland, as Zula cannot continue making the music of other people. 1993, Pullitzer Price for The Shipping News 2006, Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe for Brokeback Mountain PEN/Faulkner Award for her short story. The contrast between the pure old folk music of Poland and the comparatively meretricious styles of other cultures reaches a high point when Zula, after one performance, bypasses her husband and child and hurls herself into Wiktor’s arms, then runs to throw up (presumably in disgust at her own cooperating performance of showily attractive but alien music). : Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North. The character Zula could represent Poland itself after the bloody dismemberment of WWII, Poland ruined and oppressed and yet somehow finer than any other place, and Poland being fitted into various non-Polish regimes which the film slyly indicates with the years of travel and accompanying catalog of outsider musical styles. The film shapes itself around the love story, of course, but it has another layer of meaning which makes it a high-style allegory. ![]() I was bound to this film from the first powerful image, happy that it was in black and white, then the unblinking semi-rigid musicians in cultural straight jackets that began to expand into an almost-lost musical world. ![]() Oscars Last Call: Sylvester Stallone On Towering Triumph Of 'Black Panther'. ![]()
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