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    The document discusses how high ideals can become constraints and self-harm, referencing Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious which explores how self-sacrifice can become pleasurable yet unhealthy. It also references William Blake's line about a sick rose to represent how romantic poetry often touches on darkness. While lyricism, including its dark aspects, elevates films by adding texture, movies themselves can feel like romantic dreams through their moving images and storytelling magic.

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    The document discusses how high ideals can become constraints and self-harm, referencing Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious which explores how self-sacrifice can become pleasurable yet unhealthy. It also references William Blake's line about a sick rose to represent how romantic poetry often touches on darkness. While lyricism, including its dark aspects, elevates films by adding texture, movies themselves can feel like romantic dreams through their moving images and storytelling magic.

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    Notorious Keys Into A Dark Vein of Lyricism, A Place Where Self-Sacrifice Becomes Voluptuous and Ill. One

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    At the same time, high-flying ideals can become straitjackets or self-sabotage.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious keys into a dark vein of lyricism, a place where self-sacrifice becomes voluptuous and ill. One thinks of William Blake's iconic line, which sounds the bass note of Romantic poetry, "O Rose thou art sick." That said, it is lyricism in all its textures-dark, light, aural, visual-that lifts these films to higher ground. Rodgers and Hart, in their song "Isn't It Romantic?," describe the feeling as "music in the night, a dream that can be heard moving shadows write the oldest magic word." Those moving shadows are movies.

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