This conclusion may be further supported by taking into consideration the film's rhetorical and artistic devices.
There it was Albert's business to delay the prospective clients with various artistic devices.
But one of his artistic devices is to produce a variety of surfaces.
Such techniques were often used not only to meet deadlines but also as artistic devices.
One of Magritte's most common artistic devices was the use of objects to hide what lies behind.
However, this is freely admitted as an artistic device; unlike the medieval writer of the Life.
As an artistic device, the alternate personalities in the movie are all presented as children.
Probably an artistic device to give a feeling of time passing.
The series gathered much praise for its authenticity, particularly the way it used costumes and similar artistic devices.
If this is meant as an artistic device, it is one shared by Flanagan's other characters.