Word: aimless
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...theme and such dashing actors with such a heavy moral remains unclear. But there it is. Le Voleur plays like the flip side to Malle's Lacombe, Lucien. Lacombe made us deal with a young man's value-free drift into collaboration with the Nazis--it showed us the aimless, human side of sellout. Le Voleur confronts us with a less interesting but equally unrelenting appraisal of a high-class thief's real motives--with the aimless, addicted side of a romantic stereotype...
...think, more complete. Perhaps not the sort of rediscovered affection that caps off Portrait of a Marriage, but maybe a glimpse into the middle seventies when through, say, a feminist sharing group, Mrs. Elliot would have the chance to communicate her despair with other ex-wives in the same aimless, professionless bind. One hopes so, at least, because she can't sit and stare at the symbolic wallpaper forever...
...another round of Pabst, the refrain of Red Necks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer on the juke box, the insolent roar of a souped-up engine outside and, above it all, the sound of easy laughter. The good ole boys have gathered for their fraternal ritual-the aimless diversion that they have elevated into a lifestyle...
...remains simultaneously too obvious and indistinct. We know from the first that Cosmo is one of the walking wounded, so it is hardly necessary to make him into that-quite literally-at the movie's end. Further, the time Cassavetes spends in the Crazy Horse is amusing but aimless...
...about the ways two people rely on each other and torture each other. But all we see - perhaps all anyone could ever see - are the bitter ness and the desperation, not how and why they began. Without the powers of art to enrich and transform, Grey Gardens remains an aimless act of ruptured privacy and an exploitation...