Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comes the dawn, and Gina wants to die. Instead, she keeps going-from one man to another. The principal ones (the time is the mid-'30s) are a fascist police official, who loves her madly, a craven anti-fascist student, whom she loves madly, and a psychopathic brute, who makes love to her madly. All three lovers meet violent deaths, and at movie's end Gina is pregnant (by the student not, as in the novel, by the brute), to face the future alone...
...fact that the British and French are trying to assume their former status as colonial powers by force is in no way different from the Russians imposing Communism on Hungary by brute force. The two democratic countries ignored the principles of justice in bombing Egypt...
...heroine is a touching half-wit. His hero, an almost apelike brute, is a scowling professional strong man who breaks chains by expanding his chest. His spark of hope is an odd clown who cannot help teasing the strong...
...story of these three winds forward from the brute's purchase of the heroine from her mother for a few thousand lire. With his frightened purchase he takes to the road on a tumble-down trailer built onto a motorcycle, and is soon teaching the girl a few simple tricks--blowing a horn or dancing a few steps--with which to decorate his act. Despite frequent cuffs and constant glowering from her master, the half-wit begins to enjoy her simple performances at rural festivals...
...carnival near Rome, however, their ways are interrupted by a clown who ridicules the brute constantly. While the strong man is in jail for an attempt to repay his tormenter with a knife, the clown tries to persuade the girl to leave her gorilla. Her refusal brings a philosophic reversal of his argument: he shows her that she is necessary to her owner and is fulfilling as important a place in the scheme of things as anyone else. The thought delights the girl, and she rejoins her man. But after a subsequent chance meeting in which the brute beats...