The two - hour film is full of elaborations on its central conceit, all of which fit in a kind of funhouse logic. (firstthings.com)
For further elaboration of this distinction see Marie M. Fortune, Love Does No Harm, (New York: Continuum Publishing Co., 1995), 47 - 49. (religion-online.org)
The degree of elaboration in any given piece of mythology is irrelevant for its classification as mythology, whereas to define myth in terms of «observable» and «unobservable» tends to suggest the contrary. (religion-online.org)