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...EGLESON, who wrote and directed Dark End on location in Cambridge with a cast of unknowns, has made a touching film without a moral about a subject that long ago transcended morality. He presents a time when teenagers realize that sometimes there is nothing to ask, nothing to do and no place to run away. The cast's inexperience makes it even more natural and simple to be inarticulate about things for which there are no words and which glamorous, eloquent action would romanticize. Laura Harrington, as Donna, is a beautiful, unpolished young woman who makes the complex emotions...
...second act gives us the same couple, this time in an American hotel, this time confronted with sleeping sickness and a crazy southern doctor, whose son turns out to be Jan Egleson, the Mexican maniac of the earlier act. The doctor attempts, not to cure his patient, but rather to turn him into a Frankenstein character, playing on the patient's own death wish. The patient runs into the audience, and when cornered by the doctor's son and his own wife, escapes by swinging from the top of the theatre on a rope, crashing through the scenery, and bringing...
...patient? Who is sane? The wife, the witch doctor, the Mexican-cum-American-cum-southern black slave narrator? The viewer is just not sure, nor can he be, given Shepard's own lack of clarity. In any case, the acting is top rate, with Jan Egleson excelling in his ability to switch accents and characters in a moment, and Roberta Collinge marvelous as the wife. See it, if only to make sure it's real...
...brought to a third difference among us. Earlier today Nick Egleson spoke out against the kind of resistance whose primary motivation is moralistic and personal rather than political. He is saying that we must make ourselves relevant to the social and political condition of the world and must not just take a moral posture for our own soul's sake, even though that too is a risk...
...full of inner contradictions. In a general way, the New Radicals would nationalize basic industry, although some would only tax it more heavily. "The rich" would also be taxed to the point of doing away with big private fortunes. "We must abolish the competitive ethic," says S.D.S. President Nick Egleson. "Do we want to make 8,000,000 cars a year if we are ruining the lives of the people who are making them?" But, while New Leftists loathe capitalism, they assume that the miraculous U.S. economy will go right on turning out wealth no matter what is done...