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...they'll believe anything else. For what they have lost (and the news from Washington doesn't get all the credit for this--you can blame anything from cities of steel and stone and glass that frazzle the feelings of self to the modern predicament) is the sense of connection. And The Exorcist, if anything, depends for its shock upon severed connections. Heavy mechanical cutting dissociates you from the picture. Its edges don't connect, but hang jagged. The lesioned picture leaves you with the sense of a world awry, a broken world whose sense has splintered...
...what the U.S. might become if and when it finally degenerates into a transcontinental landscape of neon, plastic, and religious eccentricity. Californians tend to look back the other way, over their shoulders, with a snobbery of heritage worthy of Cavalier Virginia or Puritan New England. To be able to connect with grandfathers and great-grandfathers who had a place in the state's earlier development gives a select few of them some sort of hedge against the banality of tract house and freeway...
...eaten were of the poisonous variety known as death cup. Flown to King's College Hospital in London, they were rushed to a section called the liver research unit, where the husband came out of his coma. But the wife's condition worsened, and doctors decided to connect her circulatory system to the only artificial "liver machine" in the world. Four days later, after being close to death from acute liver poisoning, she regained consciousness and went on to make a speedy recovery...
...bear even his lightest touches. A son has drifted into homosexuality, a daughter tolerates Rita impatiently. Rita's relationship with her mother (etched in dry point with just the slightest drop of acid by Sylvia Sidney) has become a series of long, grumbly quarrels. Rita, in short, cannot connect properly or rewardingly with anyone she cares about...
Ferreri's greatest problem, however, is that he fails to connect the everyday lives of his characters with their actions at the villa. In the opening scenes, he gives a glimpse of each man's life, but the vignettes connect only superfluous details to the body of the film. This is a film about a decision to die, about a decision by four well-to-do-men that bizarre death on the weekend is somehow worth more than a less frantic hedonism continued over a protracted period. The decision to die cannot be divorced from the work and family lives...