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Sandro is discounted by Antonioni's contempt; Anna disappears; Antonioni never gives much attention to either the featherbrained Julia or the calm Patrizia. Only Claudia is left. And because she alone remains at the end of the film, the audience must wonder if the story is only that the slob has caught another chick. In the despairing La Dolce Vita, this would be the message. But the distinctive characteristic of L'Avventura is that things are not the same at the end as they were in the beginning. Claudia has changed, as has Anna (if she lives), as has Julia...
Convicted in 1949 under the terms of the Smith Act for conspiring to overthrow the government by violent means, Hall jumped ball and fled to Mexico. He was deported in 1951 and later served five years in jail for the Smith Act violation and for contempt of court...
...federal idea. "The fashion has been to exalt the detached surveyor of the cluttered political scene untroubled by the noisy turmoil beneath him...uncontaminated by the touch of reality." The need to "sharpen the debate between parties and within the parties...is denied or evaded by a condescension or contempt for the political life...
...Ministry, killing a mail clerk and wounding ten bystanders. During a single day, S.A.O. bombs were detonated at the homes of a distinguished cross section of Paris intellectuals, including TV Commentator Michel Droit, Gaullist Senator Louis Vigier, and Hubert Beuve-Méry, owner of Le Monde. With scathing contempt, Beuve-Méry accused the S.A.O. of setting off its bombs at a time "when the men supposed to be the targets are not usually at home but when their wives and children are." In an editorial, he added savagely: "If you believe, gentlemen, that my existence...
What is best in the movie are its city scenes--like the long, careful study of the faces of fans watching wrestling. The rage, hatred, and identifications of the crowds are shown with humor and little of the contempt that interferes with the camera's vision elsewhere. Especially memorable is an unprintable gesture one disappointed fan makes towards the victor of a match--a gesture I've never seen before in a film. By contrast to the wrestling scene, a carefully photographed sequence showing a night club stripper is spoiled by editorializing; when the camera turns angrily and unfairly...