Word: elements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Murray and Herrnstein have never said that intelligence is solely a genetic attribute. With intelligence, there is clearly an interplay between genes and environment. The bone of contention is not the environmental element, but the existence of a genetic component...
...Mother has one other element that stamps it unmistakably as from another era. Though it ends on a superficially hopeful note, the emotional climax is the old woman's almost heartbreaking cry of despair in the penultimate scene: "I'm 66 years old, and I don't know what the purpose of it all was. An endless, endless struggle. And for what? For what?" Don't look for cries of existential anguish in today's prime-time dramas, where every story must be uplifting, and even bad things teach good people heartening lessons. The Mother is dated, all right...
...this movie, as far as it can be said to have one. The viewer is left with her beautiful face, her dynamic hair, the motions of her hands, as clues to the meaning of Antonioni's relentlessly difficult and oppresive representation of human interaction. She becomes a crucial element of the stark, geometric environment in which she lives. Her feelings, it seems, hold the clue to the movie's elusive meaning and moral framework. But her feelings are inscrutable...
...central mystery and plot element of the film, Anna's disappearance, is never explained or resolved. The characters' lives remain aimless, disenchanted, fraught with a low-lying depression and highlighted by occasional bouts of manic energy. Claudia and Sandro drift towards their own terrible resolution without resolution, while the rest of the characters drift out of the film entirely...
...latter angry, passionate and dying from consumption. At first, the relationship between the two main characters is tense and strained, with both of them jockeying for position. Wyatt, still unsure about who killed his brother, suspects the Clanton family led by Pa Clanton (Walter Brennan). They represent the bad element of the town. Forced to frequent a Mexican bar, the Clantons are obvious outsiders, whereas Doc Holiday who comes from an aristocratic family in Boston, and Wyatt Earp, who is often awkward but always a gentleman represent the perennial insiders...