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Sontag argued that the film could not be understood in terms of plot. To do so would necessitate strict identification of each scene as real or imaginary, destroying the coherence built up from the disjoint opening images. The film presents an actress whose mental condition has suddenly left her mute. She is accompanied by a young nurse to an empty house on the sea. There they somehow merge or change identities--most people got that far, but that's, not very far at all. The film is not a puzzle but a meditation, Sontag said, and that interpretation is Simon...
Said Lonardi: "If anyone had deliberately proposed to disjoint the economy and wreck its finances, he could not have done it with more perfection...
This triumvirate carries the show, for the supporting cast does not always support and in some cases serves as a millstone around the picture's neck. Despite several clever touches, there are non-essential scenes which impede and disjoint the plot...
...week Ca-Choo Club's Supreme Sneezer L. E. Harris heard of a rival, George R. Pilant of Tacoma, Wash., whose wife reported: "He sneezed in Kansas and caused a team of horses to run away. He sneezed in Washington and caused the driver of the auto to disjoint his neck. He sneezed during a rummy game, causing a fellow who was just about to rummy to jump off his chair and throw his cards away. On that sneeze Mr. Pilant tore out both his tonsils...
...President may, but a Postmaster General may not, disjoint the noses of too many local party followers. On his way West Mr. Farley ingenuously admitted that he would "say a few kind words for Hiram," but would deliberately avoid Wisconsin, leaving that State to "The Boss...