Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jacques Natleau wisely chooses to use his camera as an omniscient narrator. Rather than expressing the attitude of one character, Natleau impartially examines all motivations, significantly lending the film ambiguity. In siding with neither the Christ nor the Pilate, he leaves the audience with the task of choosing the hero...
The camera marks the most important advance in the technology of eavesdropping since the invention of the keyhole. The prying eye can now record what it sees, and gossip has become a visual as well as a verbal art. This is vividly apparent in Observations, a sort of peeping tome...
As adapted for the movies by Jean-Paul Sartre, the Salem witch trials emerge as a plot by the aristocracy to chastize and control the stiff-necked rabble of the town. Thus, in the movie version, Proctor chooses to die for a cause rather than to preserve his own integrity...
Sartre has further chosen to emphasize the revengeful desires of Abigail Williams, a seventeen-year-old vixen who, after being seduced by Proctor, plots to have his wife hanged as a witch in order to take her place as mistress of the Proctor farm. Naturally then, there are some typically...
As the unfortunate Proctor, Yves Montand suffers and grimaces with commendable vigor, but he never manages to convey the internal conflict that threatens to destroy him. Perhaps this is not his fault, for Sartre has created a John Proctor who is more of a symbol than a tragic hero. At...