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Garbo
2005 · Film · documentary · 86 min
Directed by Christopher Bird, Kevin Brownlow
An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star. A portrait of Garbo the woman is drawn through interviews with biographers and admirers, plus many of the friends, relatives and associates who came closest to penetrating the lonely star's veil of solitude.
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> not trying to claim
Indeed, but that wasn't the point. The point was the journalist says Af Klint is clairvoyant, or doesn't want to write "self-proclaimed clairvoyant", possibly out of fear of damaging Af Klint's image.
> The very same sentence then goes to on to confirm
Nonsense. "As a movie star, Garbo believed ...". That doesn't say Garbo only believes she's a movie star. The construction doesn't warrant that interpretation.
> “As a musician”
So, everyone is a clairvoyant, just a very bad one. Well, why add it then to the list of features that have to be mentioned? Plus, it still accepts that clairvoyance is real.
> As a <believer in specific religion>
Look: it has believer in it, literally, unlike "musician" or "clairvoyant". If you now say "but I meant a word like Catholic", then indeed: the common interpretation for a Catholic is a believer (there's another meaning, but that doesn't matter in this context). You can even check current online discussions about witches: people explicitly differentiate between witches and those who believe they are witches. And don't you dare say the latter to someone who believes (s)he's a witch: it suggests they're delusional.
It's counter-factual journalism in an article to whip up public interest for a click-bait-y art historian.