Fun with Polysyllables

Read, reread and rereread with increasing lack of comprehension at Sartre’s Slate’s “Movie Club” feature:

“What was Little Miss Sunshine if not a brilliant ontological dissection of the perils of sublimation?”

I think the answer is, “A movie.” But I’m not sure what “ontological” can mean in this context, particularly modifying “dissection.” It certainly makes Little Miss Sunshine sound more like Saw 4: Being and Nothingness than the thin film of something described here.

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.