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At the same time, Lee is desperately envious of his brother's success, of his home and car and wife and children, of his solid bourgeois existence. Sneeringly, but also wistfully. Lee refers to "houses like they have in magazines. You know, with blondes moving in and out of rooms...
Cast in the "American" style, but darkened by German guilt feelings about the country's recent past, the film becomes a kind of German Vietnam movie. But unlike Fasbinder (in The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lili Marleen), Schloendorff (in The Tin Drum), and Syberberg (in Our Hitler), director Wolfgang...
From a distance, seemingly beyond the stage, the workshop of an eccentric inventor swims into view, its cheery interior alive with whirring mechanical toys that no child has ever imagined. Gondolas glide serenely through the perfumed, decadent atmosphere of La Serenissima-Venice, dark and dangerous. A placid bourgeois home suddenly...
Fickleness, usually accompanied by what the official language delicately calls "a third party," is also a rising cause of divorce. Peking's Research Association on Marital Affairs solemnly states that fickleness can come from social-climbing, gold-digging, unsatisfied sexual or romantic desire, or simply "bourgeois liberalism." Peking has...
Divorce, Chinese style, more and more resembles that of the decadent bourgeois West. Though there is still a stigma attached to breaking up a marriage in the puritanical People's Republic, a recent and dramatically liberalized law is sending record numbers of unhappy mates in search of freedom. In...