Word: aimless
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...each movement, one or two of the characters engage in a confessional, mingled with small talk, posturing, aimless reveries and recollections while the others remain frozen. Each person reveals a shadowy life which moves, like Leona's trailer, any way the wind blows, occasionally forming temporary relationships, and enduring the series of minor disasters inherent in such an existence. They have all, as one of them puts it, "lost the capacity for being surprised" all except for the wide-eyed innocent from Iowa. On this particular night, he's been initiated into the homosexual experience. Next time, he says...
Largely, Soledad Brother is the log of that descent. It catches Jacks in mid-flight in June of 1964. He was still in San Quentin then, but the first letter of the book reveals that already he was vastly different from the aimless small-time booster California had flushed into its prisons three years before. He writes to his mother...
...indignation, a rare quality in the gray of Washington's current power holders. Ed Muskie, the Polish immigrant tailor's son, is a true believer. That scarecrow frame, craggy face and gravelly voice make everybody think of Abraham Lincoln, and that is of huge appeal in this aimless age. But occasionally, there is the disquieting sensation that somehow he is trying too hard to be "Honest Abe," trying too much to reason with every voice that is raised against...
There is simply no excuse for continuing to drift around in an aimless, alienated, cynical, despairing fog. It is not enough to be against the war in thought only. Every person who professes to be against the war must act to end America's participation in it. The spring offers a number of opportunities for people not only to demonstrate their opposition to administration policies, but to broaden the base of opposition, and to intensify its character...
...long as he maintains this joyously aimless style, as long as the three characters are one amorphous, abstract, triple-headed Husband, the film works as an impressionistic comedy. But somewhere around the middle of the film, Cassavetes becomes dissatisfied with mere drunken clownishness, and he tries to turn his film into a psychological drama. He begins to individualize characters. Motives appear. Instead of leaving his statement to a portrait of emotions, he determines to analyze the breakdown of a friendship. Harry is no longer good old Harry but an insecure sadistic paranoid who accuses his friends of talking behind...