Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...20s Stalin had crushed the last flickers of modernism in Russia...
...opening 15 minutes of Dirty Hands reek of a doomed cliche: each scene serves up all-too-familiar cinema staples. The film begins with an apparently innocuous shot of a handsome man in his 20s going about the business of guiding his airborne kite, an activity which conveniently lands on the alluring buttocks of a naked Romy Schneider. Unruffled, she asks him if he wants his kite, and the young adonis replies in the affirmative. But before Schneider lets him out of her sight, she probes further, "Is there anything else you want...
...this version, the setting is London; the time, the '20s. Lucy Seward, fair kind maiden, is wasting away mysteriously in her father's sanatorium. Plagued by nightmares, the girl wakes paler each morning. (An example of the excruciating mental processes: The girl has two tiny cuts on her neck. Wolves howl on the moor. Bats rustle in the window curtains. "We suspect the wounds are the result of an accident with a safety pin, used when fastening her scarf," remarks the good doctor Seward, our man of science.) Soon to arrive on the scene are Jonathan Hacker, Lucy's fiance...
...frenetic Charlestoning, the drugs, the sex and the compulsive travelling of the '20s may have been described at great length in the more reputable words of the time. Nevertheless, today, there persists a nostalgia for the glitter and naivete of the decade before the Great Crash that is soon dispelled after reading some of the entries in Crosby's diary...
...this hysteria, though, Crosby is only more extreme than the times he was living in. It has become proverbial to describe the 20s in terms of a final, desperate fling before the reckoning...