Barton Fink Analysis

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Barton Fink was one of the most interesting films I’ve seen thus far in any class I’ve taken. What really caught my eye and made me think were the many variations of symbolism throughout the whole film. I feel like the atmosphere of Hotel Earle perfectly reflected Barton's feelings of loneliness and regret moving to Los Angeles. The wallpaper played a huge role in the movie, not only as its own purpose but to suggest that the room Barton is staying in is his own self created hell. The wallpaper shows the characteristics of the environment of hell (hot, sticky, nasty feeling). It is until he meets Charlie (who I feel that is Barton's imagination of what the "common man" looks like but cannot go into depth and find any inspiration) who is always sweaty, drinking, giving somewhat bad advice and swears constantly (almost like Satan, so the bible says). It feels like the scene after Barton and Audrey have sex wasn't exactly Audrey really dying. I got the idea that Barton was still dreaming. Because Barton was so angry that Audrey wrote most of Mayhew's latest work, Barton dreamt that Audrey died. When Barton watches the outtakes of the other wrestling films being made by Capitol, the board reads December 9th which was two days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor which is strategically set almost towards the end of the film to suggest that the residents in the Earle are sick, insane, handicapped people that are unfit for war (insane being Charlie the serial
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