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Later that night, while the Big M was doing a heap of paperwork, I was placed in a Sergeant's cruiser and we responded to a shooting. A woman had been shot point blank in the face by her husband. She didn't look too good (the husband didn't look too cool either; he was standing around waiting to be arrested, and he was). Since I was dispensable, the Sergeant volunteered me to accompany the woman to the hospital; so I climbed into the back of the ambulance with the technician and we did our best to comfort...
...Carter is a doggedly nasty piece of business made in blatant but inept imitation of Point Blank. While the violence in Point Blank defines some surreal and chilling points about the savagery of contemporary urban life, the mayhem in Get Carter is a gruesome and almost pornographic visual obsession. Fledgling DirectorMike Hodges clearly hoped to put together a jazzy paean to the classic detective story; the film's protagonist, in fact, is shown in a couple of scenes poring over a copy of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely. But Hodges seems to have learned more from Mickey...
...hadn't been for the acrobatics of goalie Bruce Durno, Harvard would have lest by a lot more than one goal. Durno ended his excellent career by turning away 35 shots, many of them from point-blank range...
...cuckolded. Arnolphe (Brian Bedford) has had his intended wife Agnes (Joan Van Ark) posted to a convent from childhood, and now keeps her isolated from society in a town house guarded by two watchful servants. Arnolphe's master plan has been to keep Agnes innocent in body, and blank of mind. A young gallant wrecks the plan. Horace (David Dukes) catches sight of Agnes, falls in love with her, trysts with her and eventually wins her to wife. The cream of the jest is that he enlists Arnolphe as a coconspirator, and that wariest of foxes helps to outfox...
...second half of the film undermines all that precedes it. When we first saw the characters, they were apparitions floating up from suburbia. There was a beautiful, almost hallucinatory, effect in those early facial close-ups against a blank background. But once past histories and individual psychologies are filled in, the dreamlike quality vanishes. As the film becomes more "rational" and defined, it becomes less moving...