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...bears only tangential relation to "fascist" regimes of the thirties). That is, it preaches violence over due process, irrationality over rationality, and might over right. There is nothing in this film to indicate that madness may have any positive intellectual value--only the sense that any restriction of brute animal instinct is unjustified. Self-expression of the strong is the sole good. McMurphy differs from the other patients in that he remains physically unimpaired while mentally he's just as hopeless as they are--even more so since, unlike most of them, he doesn't realize there is anything wrong...
...sake, that has nothing to do with what your view or my view of life is," Dr. Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine and director of medicine at the Harvard teaching hospital, says. "We're not talking about someone lying comfortably in bed and some brute comes along and ends their life...
...strangest thing about the epistolory method is the way Joyce shifts from the guilt-ridden accuser of betrayal to the brute animal, form addressing his letters, "My darling little convent girl," to "My sweet naughty little fuckbird." The letters are not all too significant, although Joyce does make at least one rather bold assertion: That he could sniff out his wife's gases in a roomful of women emitting similarly odiferous noises...
...train to New Orleans, Bronson silent. "Any more questions?" he always asks. At the station he just leaves; he wants to check out the town. Not to worry, Speed, Bronson will find you when he needs the dough. He does, and the movie unfolds, Bronson's strange and silent brute taking on a resonance that I haven't seen in a character in a new film in months...
...charge, showed a fondness for the good life. Johnson's entourage tended to be tenser and more belligerent, sometimes silencing hecklers with flying tackles. The Secret Servicemen surrounding Nixon were characteristically aloof and well organized. Today's White House detail is outwardly relaxed and amiable, preferring gentle persuasion to brute force...