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...constraining that there wasn't much to do but hop into your drag racer and drive around, going nowhere, burning energy. When the film focuses on the hot rods, the rock and roll and the cheeseburgers, then it is getting at forces operating behind a generation teetering on the brink of a changing world...
...French invaded in the middle of the 19th century, they expropriated vast tracts of lands, creating a tiny new class of French and Vietnamese landlords, and they hiked the tax rates and added new taxes. The majority of Vietnamese peasants were plunged into a frightful life on the brink of existence; even if they sold everything they owned, including their children, to keep up with rents and taxes, they were still in constant danger of starving to death...
...knowing why, he's hunted down as "the alien." Audiences, who always identified with Allen's alienation, feel no more at home in a hostile 2173 than he does. This is a change from the earlier Allen: Before there was a hint that the world was over the brink, but in Sleeper it's a blatant fact...
When Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution finally shuddered toward an end five years ago, the machinery of government was paralyzed, the structure of the Communist Party shattered, and China teetered on the brink of anarchy. It was the leaders of the nation's armed forces who then filled the political vacuum...
...large holdings and outlawed sharecropping and usury, rice yields today are four to five times greater than in the South.) Moreover, the French exported rice to take advantage of higher prices on the world market. Coupled with the declining yields, this exportation forced the peasants to the brink of starvation in normal times; during disasters--floods or bad harvests--widespread famines swept the countryside. After the 1944 Red River flood in northern Vietnam two million people starved to death--two million victims of the land policy brought to Vietnam by the French...