As the Fisher King subtheme insists, over-rationality is blinding, the same thematic point of which is also made in the architect Nash’s (presumably associated with mathematical rationality through the Nash equilibrium) failure to “know” how to make a necessary prop, Arthur’s failure to “...
Hoffman’s lovely movie is also a lesson in art history; the film’s designer, Luciana Arrighi, drew inspiration from the Pre-Raphaelites, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculptures, Etruscan relics, and Greek mythology. At the turn of the 21st century, John Madden’s costume movie Shakespeare in ...