Word: childishly
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...John Bruere, minister of the integrated Calvary Presbyterian church, protested: "We have had to remind ourselves that we were not witnessing the antics of college students during their bacchanalian Easter vacation. The Christian way of solving difficult intellectual, spiritual, social and political problems is being reduced to a childish pantomime...
From a suitcase H.B. produced two miniature coffins containing photographs of himself, some bottles of doubtful-looking potions, and other tools of the black magician's trade. "For a Westerner," he said, "all this may seem childish, but we are at the heart of a great drama being played in black Africa. These fetishes are the root of the problem, because behind each one there is poison...
...would have been unified and taut. But in the final thirty minutes he drags Tony down into hell and drags the film down with him. Barrett is taken back by Tony who desperately needs him. The reversal is made explicit; Tony waits on him, cringes from him, plays childish games with him. But Tony's demise is no longer very interesting, and so we question Barrett's motives. Questioning, however, is fruitless. Is Barrett a homosexual? Does he want Tony's money? Why does he find pleasure in Tony's destruction? There are no answers in the film's detail...
...widow, and rekindles an old college flame. Meanwhile the widow collects an entourage consisting of a lecherous old landowner, his Paris-educated fop of a son, a weasling Jewish merchant, and a brash horse thief named Ossip. Platonov's brother-in-law, a boozing doctor, and the widow's childish stepson, husband of Platonov's mistress, complete the menagerie...
...Producer-Director Karel Reisz errs in trying to update the melodrama with an overdose of back-to-the-womb psychology. The motherless Finney washes away dark deeds by splashing in a pond or immersing himself right up to the nostrils in a nice warm tub. In one embarrassingly childish sequence, he regresses almost to the toddler stage. The camera pays more attention to Finney's tortured mental processes than to the all-important hatbox. The new Night trades a real case of creeps for mere case history...