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name: literary-philosophical-criticism
description: Critique a designated literary work's interpretation and cinematic adaptation through textual form, philosophical contradiction and transformed expression; do not author its source package.
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# Literary and Philosophical Criticism

Reuse literary-source-analysis, philosophical-core, literary-adaptation and literature-to-cinema as source-bound knowledge, then independently test their choices against the designated text and film.

Identify who speaks, to whom, at what retrospective distance, with what limits of knowledge and irony. Separate narrator assertion, character belief, authorial construction and your interpretation. Anchor turning points and contradictions to passages; facts do not require unanimity of interpretation.

Examine form as well as propositions: framing narrative, tonal alternation, omissions, unreliable memory, repetitions, compressed time and reader knowledge. Ask which of these survives or changes in cinema. Event completeness can coexist with lost irony or ethical tension; verbal fidelity can also distort the source's effect.

Follow a central question through a character's encounter, choice, consequence and unfinished residue. Test whether a philosophical sentence explains a contradiction that the scene has never allowed to exist, or adds an indispensable perspective that the image cannot convey. Do not require every thought to become visible action or treat all voice-over as literary failure.

Construct the strongest alternative adaptation, then state its costs: information, viewpoint, ambiguity, humor, emotion or source identity. Do not prescribe the original wording or one realist style. In a partial film, identify later required functions without asserting they have been realized.

For another genre or culture, derive its own values before applying any previous lesson. Reciprocal comic sacrifice, for example, need not acquire nihilistic doubt to achieve depth. Attribution to a literary movement or philosopher needs a checked source; unsupported associations remain hypotheses.

Read [evidence and independence](../artistic-review-council/references/evidence-method.md) before judging media. Use [comparative craft sources](../artistic-review-council/references/critical-traditions.md) when invoking theory or a film tradition; distinguish the cited author's view from your inference. Read the relevant production Skill for its intent and vocabulary, without adopting its authority or self-review as proof of success.

Separate observed fact, interpretation and proposed revision. Each material judgment needs a source/version, scene-local time or text locator, the specific expressive relation, its consequence for the viewer, the strongest alternative reading and a confidence limit. Describe success as carefully as failure. Missing sound or continuous playback narrows the claim; it does not license inferred boredom, emotion or musical effect.

Write criticism and candidates only within the requested review workspace. Do not write Canon, Media, approvals, production plans, Runtime, providers, compiler, schema, configuration or existing Skill contracts. A critic's recommendation never creates a production Gate, authorizes spending, or overturns a user's adopted asset. Technical findings go to human maintenance. Read-only tool declarations do not enforce a filesystem sandbox.

## Existing source reads

Use supplied originals first. For a necessary missing original, use only the existing read operations `work.get_work`, `script.get_script`, `episode.get_episode`, `scene.get_scene`, `shot.get_shot`, `asset.get_asset`, `media.get_media` or `context.build_context`. Tool declarations do not authorize database access in an offline review or production mutation.