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...most effective film in years to be based on the shared life of a social group. The films that usually get the kudos in this category are dreary affairs like Going Down the Road and Fat City, which reduce people coerced into drudgery into pitiable misfits, driven by brute biological urges and inchoate longings for a better way. (The directors are also inappropriately general because of their mistrust of the subject matter. They milk our sympathy with occasional gropes at making their characters self-aware, and hit below the belt with chintzy music). Each of Troell's characters know perfectly...
...Yorkers grow ever more fearful of muggers, Ronnie and his friends find them increasingly willing to fight back. "Before, brute strength was enough," he says. "Now people are running around with hatpins, knives, even guns. You gotta be alert. You gotta know who to take off." Once Ronnie and other gang members followed a man into an apartment elevator, pushed him up against a wall and demanded his wallet. The man pulled out a .45-cal. pistol so they fled...
Photographs tell us that Indochina may never recover from the brute force of American violence. The imprint of the war on the American conscience is just as indelible. The war will end-if not this year, then four years from now. But after the fighting stops. Americans may finally be forced to grapple with the enormity of what they have done...
...journey's end, however. Dickey's narrator feels enriched by the experience. (And, even if Ed has had to subscribe out of necessity to Lewis's eithics on the trip's last legs, such a complete change is amazing.) He has taken on risks at a brute level which he hasn't dared in his work and home. The image of the river, we are told, becomes a core to his actual rootlessness, and is echoed in new collages which Ed attempts at his office and a new acceptance of his family. Even Medlock, never before so close to death...
...house after another (including the Met), has virtually turned the work into a gypsy folk opera. This Carmen does not carry a rose in her teeth; she would bite it off. Don Jose is no innocent victim of Carmen's wiles; to her obvious fascination, he is a brute with enough temper to kill. With the hauntingly Iberian sets by Czech Designer Josef Svoboda, one can believe that Seville is steaming hot (it literally is: 280,000 watts of light beam down on the cast from behind the proscenium), that Pastia's tavern is a fun place...