I just had an opportunity to watch "Blowup" over the weekend, and as you can imagine I paid considerable attention to the tennis game. As the game gets underway, we only hear the sounds of the mime-players' bodies as they move around the court. The sound of the ball only appears after the photographer picks it up from the grass and throws it back to the players. Since the sound only comes in after he has involved himself in the pretense, I interpret it to represent some complex weakening of his mental state vis a vis reality, given what he has experienced through the night. With this interpretation, the sound of the tennis ball becomes analogous to a voice-over. But that raises a question for me. Are voice-overs and similar devices which are taken to be unreliable considered to be part of the diegesis, or are they non-diagetic? I suspect the former, but perhaps I'm not familiar enough with the concept. Stephen Brophy Cambridge, Mass. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]