Boxers Make Good and Other Cliches in The Kid: Chamaco

Published August 4, 2010

Boxers Make Good and Other Cliches in The Kid: Chamaco
In his famous essay on Casablanca , Umberto Eco explained that film’s appeal in terms of the interplay—the “conversation”—among its numerous platitudes. “Two clichés make us laugh,” he writes, “A hundred clichés move us.” An apt cha…
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