In the great drama we follow a supposedly understood first principle to its astounding and unexpected conclusion. We are pleased to find ourselves able to revise our understanding.
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I do not think that people are basically good at heart; indeed, that view of human nature has both prompted and informed my writing for the last 40 years. I think that people, in circumstances of stress, can behave like swine, and that this, indeed, is not only a fit subject, but the only subject, of drama.
Las citas est??n en el ??ltimo libro de Mamet, Theater. La primera hace pensar en la coherencia interna de la historia, que es capaz de hacer tambalear la propia visi??n sobre un asunto determinado. La segunda, en el objeto de la representaci??n po??tica: el misterio insondable del alma humana con sus bajezas, pero tambi??n con sus hero??smos.
Poética y cine 