A missing conditional clause.

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If Pistol Opera weren't made by a director who has a sure hand with his craft, if not in his old age a mastery, then it would be just about unwatchable. This is something sad to say as I would have loved to consider Pistol Opera a luxurious expressionist piece, something that is so assured with creating a mood that it doesn't need a firm story. But in this story, whatever there is of it, about a female No. 3 killer (in Branded it was male) who has to face off against the Hundred Eyes killer and the No. 1 killer while fending off the pleas of a little girl who just wants to be a killer too, it needs some kind of focus from time to time. After a few scenes of strange set up where No. 3 faces her "boss" of sorts who wears a mouth mask and talk in abstract dialog, the film just goes off into tangents... and then more of them...

I'd like to know whether the conditional clause of "I would have loved to consider Pistol Opera a luxurious expressionist piece" might be "something that is so assured with creating a mood that it doesn't need a firm story."

Fivejedjon · Accepted Answer

No, , There is no 'conditional clause' in that sentence. "something that is so assured with creating a mood that it doesn't need a firm story" is simply expanding on "a luxurious expressionist piece".

CalifJim · Answer

park sang joonI'd like to know whether the conditional clause of "I would have loved to consider Pistol Opera a luxurious expressionist piece" might be "something that is so assured with creating a mood that it doesn't need a firm story."

I take it that you're looking for an if-clause to go with would have loved. There isn't one.

I would have loved to consider it an expressionist piece
implies
I would have loved to consider it an expressionist piece if I could have considered it an expressionist piece, (but I couldn't, and therefore I didn't).

Because of this implication, there is no need to state the if-clause explicitly. It would just add a lot of unnecessary words.

CJ

Park sang joon · Answer

Thank you both, fivejedjon and Mr.Jim, for your valuable answers.

This is something sad to say~
I'd like to know whether I have to interpret "to say" as an adverb or an adjective.

Fivejedjon · Answer

It's the infinitive form of a verb.

A missing conditional clause.

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