Word: denouement
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...dormant psychopathy but becomes a partner in his crime. Perversely, as he becomes more dangerous, she is all the more drawn to him. Finally, knife in hand, the crazed killer confronts her late at night in her apartment. It is only then, in a violent, weird, but somehow touching denouement, that the two finally embrace...
...entire emphasis of the play. Normally, Julius Caesar is a drama which builds consistently to Antony's eulogy of Brutus, "This was the noblest Roman of them all". In this performance, though, the action of this play is resolved by Caesar's funeral, and the last two acts become denouement, in which Brutus gets his inevitable punishment. Caesar, not Brutus, is the hero, Brutus, not Caesar, the buffoon...
...much of the movie is taken up with Cisco's rounds. There are a lot of grungy, evocative Los Angeles locations (diners, the back streets of housing developments), but the action is too episodic to sustain interest. Despite this, and an absurd denouement better suited to the pages of a Marvel comic book, there are indications throughout that Writer-Director Bill L. Norton was up to something more than just another movie about youth and hard knocks...
...last five minutes, the movie falls off into an inevitable but rather glib denouement. The girl (Laurie Bird) leaves the group and starts her wandering again, but since her role has always seemed merely functional, the de parture is something less than shattering...
Melody is about a lonely eleven-year-old boy (Mark Lester) and a misunderstood schoolmate (Tracy Hyde) who fall in love and are ridiculed by their parents, teachers and peers, but who eventually wed in a ceremony conducted by the boy's best friend (Jack Wild). The denouement finds all the school kids backing the prepubescent romance and holding their teachers off while the happy couple pump away into the sunset on a railroad handcar. There are some good secondary scenes of teasing and classroom high jinks, and excellent photography by Peter Suschitzky, who tries to give spice...