Film International - Volume 4, Issue 6, 2006

Let's be realistic probably more often means let us accept the limits of this situation (limits meaning hard facts, often of power or money in their existing and established forms) than let us look at the whole truth of this situation (which can allow that an existing reality is changeable or is changing) williams 1988: 259, emphasis in the original.

Where the prospective horizon is omitted, reality only appears as become, as dead, and it is the dead, namely the naturalists and the empiricists, who are burying their dead here. (Ernst Bloch 1986: 223)