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You seem to think it is a competition to reduce the number of plots down to a low number as possible. More it is an interesting experiment into analysis betwee

• jamesdutc 11y ago
  I'm calling these classifications "reductive." Unfortunately, this kind of structuralist analysis can be useful but it's limited. In contemporary critical analysis, it has been supplanted by (or augmented with) more useful techniques. These techniques are more capable of drawing meaningful distinctions between structurally similar works. For example, this simplistic thematic classification will miss a lot of the meaning in surrealist or absurdist works like those of Jodorowsky (or even a contemporary BBC3 comedy like _Snuff Box_!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_Box_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_Box_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky