Truth, Beauty and Travesty: Woody Allen's Well Wrought Urn

Nimble line; but disregarding Alien's sour grapes we find in Stardust Memories as well as 8 ½. which is widely regarded as Fellini's masterpiece, an energetic depiction of what Christian Metz calls the "cinema machine" and a clear indication of Alien's growing preoccuptation with the possibilities of film aesthetics vis-a-vis the film industry as a subject for filmmaking. Eye trouble, literally and figuratively, is pushed to such Sophoclean limits (ocular imagery ranges from eye glasses and automobile headlights to the eyes of a demon lover) that we are all but blinded by the symbolic overkill of the script.