Dear Phone

Greenaway

Dear Phone is also a spoof of a sort, and argues, if all cinema is a question of illustrated text (and isn't it?) then why not simply film the text? In doing just that, the film also plays games with narrative, persuading you that what you read and what you listen to might not be the same thing, and parodies the uses and abuses of the telephone habit, albeit in those days when the British red telephone box was ubiquitous and not just a weary tourist symbol (this was the sort of transformation that the COI performed on everything).