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...camps, Wertmuller does portray alternative choices to those of Pasqualino in more fully rounded terms. The situation there is awful enough to make total refusal intelligible, and the character of the old anarchist (Fernando Rey), who continues to affirm his ideal of "man' in disorder" despite a set of crushed testicles, is a touching vignette. Nevertheless, the deaths of Francesco and the anarchist in defiance of the Nazis represent a purely negative gesture. Their renunciation of life based on abstract principles have little to do with the way men lead their lives; collective suicide is simply not a viable moral...
...Long Goodbye. The Big Question these days among movie-people is who Altman is going to cast in Ragtime. Jagger, springsteen and Dylan all want to play the anarchist younger brother and The Village Voice ran a contest in the midst of last summer's doldrums asking readers to suggest casting. In the meantime, Altman's movies are showing everywhere. The Long Goodbye is his funniest and most coherent. Elliot Gould simply deteriorated after his performance here as Philip Marlowe--by California Split he was in love with himself, utterly enchanted by his own idiosyncracies. Such narcissism shall not pass...
Truly comic characters appear onstage about as often as there is a lunar eclipse. That is what makes the arrival of Norman, the pint-sized anarchist of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy, an occasion of happy terror. The most satisfying laughs are those induced by determined worms, and Norman is an Attila of the worm world...
Irons doesn't remember the incident, but it expresses fairly adequately his attitude toward the law. "Lawyers control the law," he says. "I'm not a total anarchist--I do believe in some kind of legal system. I think the basic cause of crime is the political social system, which has inequality built into it. But that doesn't answer the problem of what you do till the revolution comes...
While he sometimes refers to himself as a "political chameleon," Irons basically considers himself "a cross between an anarchist and a socialist," with what he calls some Ghandian pacifism thrown in for good measure. He doesn't really offer a model for the society he'd like to live in; he concentrates instead on the society at hand...