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...device of shamming insanity has a long tradition going back at least as far as Oceanus' advice to Aeschylus' Prometheus: "To simulate madness is the secret of the wise," Walken's "antic disposition" is correctly a disguise. He appears barefoot, wearing a muddied monk's gown with cowl. He takes things pretty fat, however, In the Nunnery Scene, where he not only berates Ophelia but even knocks her down and slaps her. Later he shinnies up a pole to give a speech...
...will Congress then deliver on its pledge to help trim the budget deficit? "Beats me," shrugs Colorado Republican William Armstrong, a member of the Senate Finance Committee. "It's painful work. It's kind of like walking over coals barefoot." Adds Texas Democrat Kent Hance of the House Ways and Means Committee: "No way. Coming in on target is just not going to happen...
...same savvy that helped them endure past occupations, Poles are proving particularly ingenious in devising new stratagems in their psychological war with the martial-law regime. After pioneering the newswalk, Swidnik residents disrupted plans for a local May Day parade by announcing that they were going to show up barefoot. Many Poles with a flair for the dramatic still dress in black, or at least wear a black ribbon, as a sign of national mourning over freedom lost. Others flaunt plastic badges of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the religious emblem associated with imprisoned Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. To show...
...killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep. But they did evoke a world so cohesively ominous that when life and death eyeballed each other at the denouement, it mattered which one blinked first. No such laws operate in Diva. In an early scene, we see a harried woman trudging barefoot through a Metro station; she recognizes two men-a skinheaded punk and a swarthy rake-and smiles enigmatically as they pursue her out of our sight; she runs into the street and collapses, a knife in her back. So far, fine: the sequence has pace, atmosphere, humor, suspense...
...ultimately unsatisfied with the parable of wealth, family and a man who must face his own trivial life. Bertolucci concludes the work on a religious note--but again be fails to integrate, slapping on symbolism like an applique. Barefoot, the son reborn dances with the workers in an episode stylistically unrelated to the rest of the movie. Primo arrives at no revelation, achieves no redemption from his farcical life. He exists calling for more champagne, as bewildered as the audience...