Whether in domestic states of undress or in designer threads, they're stick figures articulating and acting out rote issues of monogamy, loyalty and betrayal, all amid a dreamy nighttime atmosphere that's diluted by too - neat cross-cutting between Joanna and Michael that hammers home
already obvious parallels.
Not exact matches
For MacIntyre — a lapsed Marxist turned Catholic — the
parallel with our contemporary Western society was both
obvious and sobering: «This time, however, the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have
already been governing us for quite some time.
The odd one out here is Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde would have been the more
obvious choice, but the
parallels with Extraordinary Gentlemen are
already too close for comfort.)