State University of New York at Stony Brook
                       Stony Brook, NY 10025
 
                                            Krin Gabbard
                                            Associate Professor
                                            Comparative Literature
                                            212 749-1631
                                            29-Jun-1995 09:37am EDT
FROM:  KGABBARD
TO:    Remote Addressee                     ( [log in to unmask] )
 
Subject: Re: The Human Voice
 
Kristine Butler asks about films in which the human voice is drowned out by
other sounds.  It's been a long time since I've seen it, but isn't something
like this in the climax of Fellini's _La Dolce Vita_?  An innocent woman is
trying to tell the jaded Marcello some piece of wisdom, but he can't hear her
because of the sound of, I think, rushing water.  I believe we call this a
metaphor.
 
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