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...fantasist faultlessly. His eyes gleam, his smile shifts. Sometimes his face seems to be under two separate spells, one side of it benign, the other twitching with intimations of violence. And occasionally Oates will let all his defenses collapse, as when GTO sits in a North Carolina roadside diner and abstractedly orders "champagne and caviar and chicken sandwiches on toast." Suddenly there is a despairing glimpse of a schizophrenic life cracked by thwarted dreams...
...have to cover much territory (in time or space) or involve many characters to bring its goods home. It tells the simple story of a moody redneck named Robert Dupea (Jack Nicholson), who works on an oil-rig by day and sleeps with Ray (Karen Black), a dumb-blonde diner waitress, by night...
...thing I managed to do this summer was not get beaten up by the Mt. Kisco Gang. It hangs around outside Leonardi's Pizza and the Laundromat across from Friendly's, where all the nice people go. After Friendly's closes, they all migrate down to the Midnight Diner, the purest example of Mafia art in the New York area. A year ago, a bunch of them, including leader Tony, came into Friendly's to try to get us out to fight. "We're callin' youse out," he told me. I told him there was no way I was going...
...Lesbian-in fact, that the more insipid characters of the film are women-betrays a nasty truth about the movie.) The bowling, beer, and sex scenes are authentic, the lampoon of a delightfully masturbatory intellectual cocktail party is great, and occasional small details (a baby crying in a diner, a formal meal set in a kitchen) are chillingly accurate...
...example: A scene in a diner. Nicholson has had the classic crisis with the dumb waitress. She accepts no menu substitutions, cannot understand even his compromises. The moment arrives when our blood and Nicholson's are boiling with the same vengeful fury. Instead of responding to the situation (and response is what it's all about), Nicholson destroys it. Rather than commenting on the violent hate which such a situation calls up in us, rather than suggesting ways out these petty confrontations which add up to the trivial but crippling despairs of our existence, Five Easy Pieces plays a puerile...