OK, I'm coming from a literary perspective and the best of my knowledge that's never incorporated anything but the subtle inclusion of the fantastic, surreal, or magical in an otherwise realistic setting, even if it is left potentially explicable, such as in Rushdie's works. In film, Jameson's, "On Magic Realism in Film" is probably the most important contribution that I can think of, would certainly equate with this.
Having something you can clearly point at and say "this is magic" is not required : it is that overwhelming sense of not - quite - reality is what makes magic realism so magical.
I sort of agree with this; but would define the "overwhelming sense" of "not quite reality" to be magical, fantastical, or surreal. I don't hold The Grand Budapest to be these, but rather just fictional.
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Date: 2014-05-04 07:26 am (UTC)Having something you can clearly point at and say "this is magic" is not required : it is that overwhelming sense of not - quite - reality is what makes magic realism so magical.
I sort of agree with this; but would define the "overwhelming sense" of "not quite reality" to be magical, fantastical, or surreal. I don't hold The Grand Budapest to be these, but rather just fictional.