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Jajasoon Tlitteu <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 Nov 1994 00:13:38 -0600
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>I never thought I'd be writing e-mail messages about films with goldfish, but I
>think I've come up with a good one.  It's a Canadian film from 1978 called _The
>Silent Partner_.  Elliott Gould plays a bank clerk who collects tropical fish,
>and I think he carries around a gold fish in a plastic bag for a while as a
>metaphor for the precarious position that he himself is in (Christopher Plummer
>has threatened to kill him).  The metaphor is expanded when the head of a woman
>ends up in Gould's fish tank just after he has made love to her.
 
Does the clerk carry the goldfish as a metaphor for his position?  Or does
the filmmaker/writer do the dirty work?  I hope it's the former - isn't
carrying fish as signifiers illegal in Canada?
 
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