allegory

Witness Swift’s “But Daddy I Love Him,” a blistering cut from the singer’s latest LP widely understood to be an allegory of her feelings toward fans who tsk-tsked her brief relationship with Matty Healy of the 1975.

“But then sex work worked in, because I started to realize that there was some allegory there, and there was a lot to be explored that I haven’t explored with the other films, and it just made sense. Each one has come very organically.”

But the contemporary allegory of patriarchal control over reproduction pulsates throughout, even as the film remains open to multiple readings.

They call their approach PlatoNeRF, based on Plato's allegory of the cave, a passage from the Greek philosopher's "Republic"in which prisoners chained in a cave discern the reality of the outside world based on shadows cast on the cave wall.

On its most fundamental level, the water is an allegory.