Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal press has been notably deficient in its reporting of the Indochina War. Nguyen Van Thieu ruled South Vietnam for several years before his repressive laws and police-state apparatus were described in any detail. The war went on for almost a decade before the press hinted that the National Liberation Front drew its strength from sources other than coercive terror...
Love derives much of its strength from the fine accumulation of gesture and detail that Director Makk has worked into the modest fabric of his story. An old lady (Lili Darvas), nearly 100 and dying with dignity and resignation from the kind of fatigue that cannot be diagnosed or reversed, lies all day in her bed, tended by a maid and by her daughter-in-law Luca (Mari Torocsik). The old lady lives in a twilight of memory, where past and present tend to flow together into a kind of future-imperfect tense. The room is kept clean and carefully...
...serving a ten-year term for some unspecified crime against the state. Luca keeps this from the old lady, and instead constructs letters with elaborate lies about his success and about the richness of America. The old lady reads the letters with a large magnifying glass, thrilling to each detail like a child hearing a fairy tale, relishing the deception they represent even as, in some way, she seems to understand...
...brilliantly amplified in the "official" footage from which Mora has put together an impressionistic tour of the culture of Nazism. No other film has given so strong a sense of its pervasiveness, or the methodical detail with which it was grafted onto the twin German traditions of folk and high art. Goebbels' cameramen, filming the gnarled peasants at work or the shiny, hopeful faces of village children baking festive rolls in the shape of swastikas, were building on the most popular traditions of 19th century German genre painting-that volkisch sentiment that was Germany's equivalent to America...
...best lines from old Nixon speeches," and Hubert Humphrey is a "treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current." He doesn't pretend to cover the campaign thoroughly: he ignores some events and deals with others in detail, looking for an essence rather than a careful report...