Word: climaxes
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...millenium approaches, "The X-Files" also approaches a climax of rather cosmic proportions. This is, sadly enough, to be the show's last season; after seven years, they're finally going off the air. As a loyal fan, I'm both disappointed and relieved--I'll miss the weekly dosage of new episodes, but I'm glad they're smart enough to bail out before the number of paranormal plotlines thins too much...
...close my eyes and imagine Times Square, desolate save for Vladimir and Estragon, the stammering tramps of Waiting for Godot...waiting for the millennium that never comes. And the famous ball--by dint of Zeno's paradox--falls but never reaches its destination. It's an infinitely deferred climax, a perpetually peaking party, an existential rave...
...This obvious attempt to inject class is not only a shadow of Renoir's leftist leanings, but it also serves to set the grounding for the film's climax. The '90s viewer is accustomed to images of war camps populated with emaciated prisoners living in horrible conditions. Thus, Renoir's attempt to convey a POW camp is incredibly dated...
...need to acknowledge that they are not bad feelings; they are human feelings," he said. I asked him why, in that case, the fight clubs in his novel caused so many problems. "Because it was a book, it had to go somewhere," he explained. "It needed a climax." It was a manly answer. Palahniuk wrote his book in three months; Stiffed took seven years. Men don't ask a lot of questions when they're looking for a climax...
...audience can't help but wish for him to pull the trigger--at least to end his escalating insanity along with the audience's suffering. Each time, he is interrupted, leaving the audience with no choice but to hold on (just barely) until the end. Even then, the climax of the story, which occurs when Dwayne meets Kilgore in a hotel bar, does nothing but confuse the audience even more. Dwayne comes to believe that he is a character in one of Kilgore's novels, and this realization sparks a series of violent outbursts. This mindless violence is followed...