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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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Seijun Suzuki has made great films, and at least some very good ones. And oddly enough some of those films were done not with a completely free hand. Suzuki had resistance (and even got fired during the editing) with Branded to Kill, his 1967 masterpiece that serves as the sort of inspiration for this extremely loose remake/re-telling. But maybe that served him better than here, which is a little like Lynch with Inland Empire: the floodgates are open, and it's high time to just let whatever s***'s inside fly out. Only unlike a Lynchian DV mescaline trip into brain-tubes, this is like a Kabuki fever dream cooked up by the samurai in Lowry's dream scenes in Brazil. It's an artist working without a net and, frankly, without much of a story or close to identifiable actors, either.

I'd like to know whether "it" indicates "working" and "an artist" represents general artists.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon I'd like to know whether "it" indicates "working" and "an artist" represents general artists. It's an artist working without a net and, frankly, without much of a story or close to identifiable actors, either. "It" is a "dummy it" that refers to the film and its characteristics described earlier in the text.

— AlpheccaStars

  • park sang joon I'd like to know whether "it" indicates "working" and "an artist" represents general artists.
  • It's an artist working without a net and, frankly, without much of a story or close to identifiable actors, either.
  • "It" is a "dummy it" that refers to the film and its characteristics described earlier in the text.
  • "an artist" refers to Seijun Suzuki as an artist.
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park sang joonI'd like to know whether "it" indicates "working" and "an artist" represents general artists.
It's an artist working without a net and, frankly, without much of a story or close to identifiable actors, either.

"It" is a "dummy it" that refers to the film and its characteristics described earlier in the text.
"an artist" refer
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Thank you AlpheccaStars for your valuable answer. Emotion: smile
Then, do you think "artist" modifies the gerund "working"?
Is this possib
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park sang joonThen, do you think "artist" modifies the gerund "working"?
No. I read it as a non-finite clause, modifying artist.

It is an artist (who is) working....

The gerund usually has a possessive subject, eg.

It is the working of an artist without...
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Thank you, AlpheccaStars, for your continuing support. Emotion: smile
The reviewer used "an artist", not "the artist" and It(the film) takes "
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park sang joonSo might I think "an artist" expresses one aspect of Suzuki as an artist?
It's an artist working without a net and, frankly, without much of a story or close to identifiable actors, either.

You are analyzing the sentence as if it were literal. But it's not; it is a figure of speech, in particular a metaphor. It is commentin
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