Word: detachedness
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The film is being billed as "Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now," but a reading of the Du Maurier story from which the adaptation has been made makes one appreciate Roeg and Screenwriters Scott and Bryant all the more. Film and story share certain basic elements...
Illuminations is not about answers but about learning to live without answers. Zanussi neatly and effectively gets across his hero's sense of total frustration and helplessness by engulfing us, documentary style, with the kind of data that so boggle him: scientific theories, religious orders, social patterns. With all...
With a plot devoid of suspense, an air of regality is of the essence. Eileen Herlie strives for imperiousness and achieves glacial suburban pomposity. George Grizzard suggests a jaunty detached habit of command, but any show of passion is dissipated in petulance. All in all, one has the unsettling impression...
But at Harvard, Walsh feels "detached" from what he wants to do most. "This place is very narrow, as big as it is," he says. Nonetheless, his managers are encouraging him to stay in school to complete his education--and being a Harvard student "does no harm for publicity."
Shocked by the brutality of the war, and traumatized by the death of his friend and fellow poet Federico Garcia Lorca, Neruda pruned from his own writing much of its detached symbolism. Instead, he began to turn out blunt, vertiginous, often satirical verse-poetry that Neruda once described as "written...