(August 11, 2016 at 7:02 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(August 11, 2016 at 6:43 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: For the kind of outside pressure needed to instill excellence in a person.
LOL... I don't think you've quite grasped the meaning of the word "metaphor". The movie deals literally with "the kind of outside pressure needed to instill excellence in a person" (if that's how you want to put it) - in this case in a particular setting, that of a musical conservatory. There's no need for metaphors. Misrepresenting the world being referenced and circumstances of the story is not a metaphor - it's just bad writing.
a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.
That's what a metaphor is. Like I already said, you are taking it too literally. The movie simply represented what that struggle is like by exagerating some parts of it, like the teacher's violent behaviour.
