Madeleine, who is shown to be sound asleep inside. When the telephone rings with a jarring sound, she whirls around to face him, the camera zooming in on her startled expression. ... This inability to love a real flesh-and-blood woman is what fueled him to obsessively attempt to mould Judy into Madeleine, in later scenes, to explode in a ruthless fury upon discovering the truth, and drag Judy up the bell tower with vengeful cruelty, where she stumbles to her fatal fall, shattering his world of illusion. ...

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As present in the opinion of some Japanese scholarship, 'the sound and fury of the party battle could never be more than diversionary in the broad sweep of an absolutism built on Emperor, land, and capital.'6 It seems then, that democracy, in its official, parliamentary form, faced a colossus of constitutional opposition, perhaps originating from the fact that the authors of the Meiji Constitution had laid down the foundations of a modern state which 'was inevitably absolutist, counter-revolutionary, and imperialistic'.7 This was not, however, where the political sh...

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