Word: breds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marianne's romantic illusions hinge on her idea of straight talk. In her marriage at the start of the film, she thinks it comes from fidelity: commitment breeds honesty. But when Johan ups and goes it's clear any commitment there was had bred nothing. For her affair by the new rules with her ex-husband, at the end of the film, she has a new line: "telling the truth now...because we make no demands." Her myth is that if only people didn't talk in a babel of lies they would love in a smooth, enduring...
...specifics of modern society. When love breaks down the modern institutions are the primary cause; the incorporeal concerns Bergman can usually convey are absent. So this film brings forward no sense of awe. The spiritual sense is cut out from underneath--what's left are the rocky, excessive emotions bred by the petty, inchoate sexual relations of a sexually and politically unequal society. Bergman has never isolated these passions before. For the past two decades the characters in his movies have been searching for something beyond middle-class love--thus the brooding solemnity of so many of them--but Marianne...
Carey had all the attributes of a winning New York candidate. Brooklyn-born and bred, he had the genial but "don't tread on me" demeanor of the neighborhood Irish bartender. A Roman Catholic widower with a dozen children, he was at home with the city's ethnic denizens who ask, above all, that they not be looked down upon. At the same time, he was acceptable to the city's liberals, the imperial custodians of party affairs. Though he served Brooklyn's most conservative district, he maintained a relatively liberal voting record. Besides, after more...
...person taking himself completely apart, cutting himself off from the conditions that bred him. He runs out of money, and is forced to go out on the street. He takes a factory job in Elmira, and becomes a regular at a bar, still in limbo. At the pool table he gets to know one of the fellows who struts in every day with a group of loud and dirt-streaked worked wearing hardhats and carrying toolbelts. They are ironworkers. After some time they take him to see "Jack...
Claude, Belgian-bred but a naturalized American, laid the foundation for modern cell biology with his work at Rockefeller U. between...