Bijou (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stuart Dybek
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: A film festival at an unspecified location
- Principal Characters: An unnamed narrator
- Genres: Short fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: Social issues, Art or artists, Violence, Theater, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Guerrillas or guerrilla warfare, Torture
The Story
The narrator announces the screening of a foreign art film at a festival. The film challenges the audience in several ways; it is shot in black and white, with unpredictable light values, so that it often appears as a negative. Shades of gray are rarely used, and the narrator speculates that in the tropical country where the film was made, everything is vibrantly colored so that “even vanilla ice cream is robin's-egg blue.” Black, white, and especially gray are colors that the narrator apparently associates with the West, industrialized Europe and the United...
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