"The Explicator" 65.2 (Winter 2007)&colon; 99-101. The narrator/explicator of the film was Willy Mullens. A circle of powerlessness ties the student to the explicator of the old method (15). The Explicator is a quarterly journal of literary criticism. Only by concealing knowledge from the student is the explicator able to teach it. He was a commentator and explicator and occasionally a passionate, though generally good-humoured, controversialist.