Word: blindman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blindman's Buff. At every level, the U.S. is locked in a complex, unpredictable-and brutal-struggle. Last month three U.S. marines and eight South Vietnamese captured by the Viet Cong on a patrol 80 miles southwest of Danang were savagely executed. One American was shot six times in the face at close range. Another's face was hacked beyond recognition with a machete...
...many ways, it is the same kind of fighting-with some local refinements-that G.I.s faced in the island-hopping battles of World War II. It is an interminable blindman's buff that has squads and platoons snaking stealthily along tangled jungle paths, ever fearful of snipers' bullets, ever watchful for the trip wire that might set off a lethal "Bouncing Betty" mine or drive poison-tipped stakes into a man's chest. The big set-piece battles-Chu Lai and Plei Me, Chu Pong and la Drang-were the exceptions, and even they
...Blindman's Buff. Man has always held the night in terror?from Homer's day, when the warriors in the Iliad besought Zeus to "deliver from darkness the sons of the Achaeans," through Biblical times, when God's direst threat was to "set darkness upon thy land," right down to the present, on those rare occasions when he encounters...
Even so, New Yorkers assailed by chill night?and, for a frozen instant, silence?reacted almost sportively, as if it were all a gigantic game of blindman's buff. In soaring office buildings and fetid subway tunnels, beleaguered commuter trains and jampacked terminals, they joked and chattered, waiting from minute to minute for the reviving whine of dynamos, the first stutter of returning light. And, incredulously, they began to realize at last that they had been transported to Caliban's world, a vast, trackless cave without warmth or wheels, without hot food or the lights of home...
...style and shaping of the whole that gives the film its special authority: Director Losey's use of a bunch of privates as a kind of action chorus to comment on the development of the drama; his staging of a symbolic game of drunken blindman's buff in Hamp's cell before he is executed; the awful detail of Hamp's death, which underscores the movie's ruthless dissection of Britain's caste system...