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Masochism comes from the name of the demented 19 th -century novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who described the relevant eponymous practices in his writings.
In The Muse , however, the masochism feels a little too reflexive, and the picture's flatness gets flatter by the minute.
In places, his indictment of certain aspects of the Mexican character is so harsh--he accuses his fellow countrymen of pathological passivity and a love of lying--that it verges on masochism.
,” “Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa: Murder, Madrigals, and Masochism,” and “The Iconography of Fanny Hill : How to Illustrate a Dirty Book”), but they are not pornographic; others are somewhat more clinical (“Johnson and Boswell: `Vile Melancholy' and `The Hypochondriack”); all exhibit a quality of writing rarely encountered.
You'd think that all this would just add interest--who needs more artificial sunniness from television, anyway?--but Felicity , alas, is no Ingmar Bergman movie, or even a Quentin Tarantino one, and the darkness just turns some delightful teen-age fare into an exercise in viewer masochism.