Second viewing (first one January 16, 1989).
The second story is Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, by Oscar Wilde (first publication 1887).
Three stories. (1) On Mardi Gras, an ugly woman wears a mask and decides to talk to the man she loves; (2) A fortune teller on a party reveals to a man that he is about to commit murder; (3) A circus performer who does the high wire act has a dream in which he falls and in it he sees a woman screaming in the audience.
The first story is horrendous. The middle one is excellent. The last one is passable.
Stories 2 and, to a lesser extent, 3 are structurally similar to Oedipus Rex, dealing with the question of predetermination and fate.
Rating: 57 (unchanged)
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