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Ah-ooga!But a filmmaker able to speakwhollyin metaphor is a rare kind of artist: a director-poet.
The military has this down to a routine.
She fully registers her grandsons death but doesnt know exactly who Michael is.
The rectangular corrugated shed in which they live is Ah-ooga!
tilting and sinking, a way of suggesting the loss of their moral equilibrium.
The movie has a wonderful animated sequence.
But one interpolation is ingenious.
Foxtrotwon the grand prize at last years Venice Film Festival and was shortlisted for the foreign-language Oscar.
I agree that the sequence is improbable and encourage the government to view it as a metaphor Ah-ooga!
for the mixture of dehumanization and arrogance that characterizes many of its policies.
It would still be enraged but for reasons that cut deeper and will endure.
*This article appears in the February 19, 2018, issue of New York Magazine.
