Word: bleakfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a repudiation of the conventions of ordered narrative development provides a ready vehicle for a director eager to present a vision of a bleak, alpine world where individuals try unsuccessfully to break the shell that surrounds them. However, the automatic poignancy it confers on detail lends itself to over-simplification of character that Tanner is unable to resist. When reinforced with an often facile symbolism, these nuances of individual behavior cement the stereotyping of sexual roles that makes The Middle of the World far inferior to Scenes from a Marriage in its dissection of a couple's relationship. Visual...
...going to leave him, because she's frustrated by his inability to see through to the "real" her, we are neither prepared nor surprised--nor interested, for that matter. Perhaps Tanner and his experiment with modernist formalism has succeeded too well. In approximating life in all its bleak, discontinuous reality, he has made a film that, like most of life itself, is boring. From the perch of his director's seat he surveys the ennui-stricken masses who pour into the movie theaters, hungering for an insight into the chaos that engulfs them. His response; let them cat symbols...
...they wait in the bomb bay for their one shot at glory, the bombs chatter brightly with the spacemen. The crew, well bored with one another by this time, talk more with the machines than among themselves. Their life of daily risk is done nearly by rote. They are bleak, melancholy, and running out of toilet paper...
...Communist Vietnam is probably the least dismal of the bleak alternatives that have faced the Vietnamese people. But in its editorial "A Free Vietnam" The Crimson makes use of a ludicrously biased view of Communism to display an utterly unwarranted enthusiasm for a Communist takeover...
...Back in Washington last week, Fischer saw the White House mood turn sharply "from calm contemplation to grim apprehension" as the military situation in Indochina deteriorated. Pentagon Correspondent Joseph Kane, who filed on the plans for emergency evacuation of U.S. citizens and others from Saigon, found an atmosphere of bleak and open pessimism