leigh chareles goldstein wrote: ". . . my tendency to separate social/ political commenatary from psychological/ personal commentary " from jordan stein: Why do you make that distinction. Given the major convention of classical Hollywood is to focus on a goal centered protagonist, who's inner psychology is manifested outwardly, are you denying the possibility of any classical film to make social commentary. Don't humans understand films because films implicitly contain social assumptions that we are able to understand. Just because a film focuses on individual, does that mean it isn't making commentary on that society? For instance, even though the Wizard of Oz focuses on Dorothy's psychological need to get home, because that film was made in the depression, for audiences of the depression, I would argue that type of reading is applicable. As an aside, how does Oz rank as a utopian society? sincerely, Jordan