Nashville's 'Country Music': Referential Meaning
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Question 3: Meaning
Referential meaning: Nashville follows twenty-four different character’s lives which intermingle during a five-day country music festival in Nashville. The music festival corresponds with a presidential campaign.
Explicit: Portrayal of American obsessions with celebrities and the shallowness of American life.
Implicit: Destruction of ideals. Many of the characters in Nashville go through allegorical destructions in an array of fashions. Life doesn’t always proceed in the way we want. Life is not all sunshine and rainbows, we fight with each other and bump heads, but we are all in this together. In other words, the show must go on.
Symptomatic: Nashville is a profoundly political film. The film was a way of showing the