CHIN 2052 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Instant History, Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso
25 Apr 2016
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Phone call: ex girlfriend of friend looking for friend (narrator staring at ceiling) Omits contact info; (imagination) objects of room turn into pillars of ice, as if. How importing western culture, so it became a big part of his life that he couldn"t do much else due to the consumption of western product: substitution for sex spaghetti. Fervent embrace of western culture goods: narrators erotic spaghetti. Reference to the cheesy romance love is a many splendored thing. Obsession with spaghetti: proxy for human relationships (german shepherd) Objects as pillars of ice: life and time = suspended; locked in his own crystal world. Ultimately: fantasy, futility: cooking imaginary spaghetti, staring at ceiling: loneliness, isolation, frustration lives for cooking and eating spaghetti, very depression, despair. Protagonist: not boku but middle-aged woman sachi: lost surfer son in. Sachi"s talent playing piano by ear; in chicago, learned english, us boyfriend, but deported for working illegally.
