Filmed entertainment as the medium of the father-son bond
echoes
From: All That
- Early text: The narrator's closest bond with his father is formed
in front of the television — "usually took place on the couch," the boy lying
"with my head on a pillow on my father’s knees" — and the story climaxes on a
war movie the two watched together and now remember differently.
- IJ echo: James Incandenza and Hal — the filmmaker father whose relationship
to his son runs through screens and staged scenes; the professional-conversationalist
episode, in which the disguised J.O.I., convinced his son
never speaks, cannot hear Hal talking right in front of him (scene 005,
pp. 27-32).
- Weight: shared-preoccupation