(August 11, 2016 at 7:15 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: 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.
Which is it then - is metaphor "a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract", or is it exaggeration?
Sure - there is "exaggeration" in the movie (or in other words - sh*t that doesn't really happen), as I pointed out in my first post in this thread. But it's not a metaphor - it's just dumbing down the story, so that people with no interest in subtleties of music can comprehend it and relate to it. There's plenty of struggle in the world of musical academy - there's no need to put a high-school coach into it. And if the film-makers didn't want to make a movie about musicians - then they should have made a movie about something else. Like football jocks, or something.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
