A film as ambiguous as Barton Fink invites multiple readings.
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Stephen Sparks lives in San Francisco. His essays and interviews have appeared in Tin House, 3:AM Magazine, and the LA Review of Books.
The Muppet Movie, like all truly great art, focuses myriad points of anguished thought and feeling into a single beam of light—in this case, literally—to demonstrate, with a simplicity that belies its depth, its own magnificence.
Barton Fink’s real commitment is to his Art. The struggle, he shouts from his high horse, is here, finger pressed firmly against his temple.
