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...more they exhaust your interest. Penn forces the audience into active participation to keep track of characters and motivations, and consequently loses all control. Four Friends is the celluloid equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting, splashing everything about the sixties--sex, drugs, rock, JFK, the moon shot, draftcard burnings, racial tension, etc--into one amorphous mass, demanding more emotion and extracting more then it's worth. Penn and screen writer Steve (Breaking Away) Tesich drape images of America--idealistic immigrants, the national anthem, a flag-burning--with out ever evoking an emotion. The "action" drags so that you find yourself...
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