>>48196>this is an odd way to look at any piece of artif the art doesn't want me to look at it that way, it shouldn't spend so much time engaging what it treats as childlike interpretations. it's the same mantra as "all art is political"- i CAN look at the teletubbies and wonder "are the writers portraying the benefits of a non-nuclear model of childcare in having the tubbies largely exist as equals? or do the nuances of their relationship reveal cultural carryovers, e.g. tinky winky as a masculine-coded authority?", but i'd be wasting my time because inference can only go so far w/o intention, the nucleus of all art
>i guess it would be functionalist?which is different to this in that i don't think the creator REGARDS their work as being for children, but still feels compelled to argue with them? imagine; melfi, in her conversation with kupferberg about tony, going
>… maybe my tony and his soprano really are inseparable!it'd be idiotic, right? after all that effort showing you that evil can't be compartmentalized, our understanding of sociopathy has been prescribed from one guy to… two guys. imagine; as achilles grants king priam hector's body, he says
>heh, i'm such a big softie deep down!… sure, it's still depth, but it completely flattens not just achilles, agammemnon, etc., but the entire conflict's subtext of the greek understandings of good war being a mutually ruinous facade in it's "civilization", imagine; schierke sits down with the beast of darkness and says
>geez, this femto guy seems powerful! i don't think we should fight him, guts!… on one hand, powerscaling mouth-breathers now understand that guts is not kratos killing ares. on the other hand, the story now has gow1's depth- sorry, were you more interested in why guts thinks he isn't death-marching himself into the palm of the godhand? does he care? is he motivated by something else? do other, more healthy motivations exist around him? is femto even the man he wants to kill anymore? fuck, why not make them 3 distinct characters in a hotline miami-esque dream to tell the audience he isn't gay and that he just fucking hates being a cripple
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