Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe Visconti is afraid that complexity of character-he uses all his actors as bits of movable scenery-or dramatically meaningful sequences would distract attention from his endless, pointless photography of galloping horses, gliding boats, and light-footed lads. Or maybe the movie is a huge metaphorical joke: Ludwig, after all, built empty, rambling castles where no one ever lived. This movie is constructed along a similar plan. There was, though, a certain magnificence in Ludwig's madness. Visconti's movie is merely maddening...
Should I? Shouldn't I? Should I? Shouldn't I? Do I want four more years Of endless headaches, worries and woes...
...Vietnamese did not choose greatness--who but a lunatic would?--they had greatness thrust upon them. Most of them would probably have preferred peace under General Thieu to the endless terror of civil war and American repression...
...months he spent in the "Hanoi Hilton" and other North Vietnamese camps. He and his fellow prisoners were about 30 lbs. underweight, he said, because of a thin diet of watery soup and bread. During his confinement, said Overly, each tiny cell was equipped with a loudspeaker that broadcast "endless hours of propaganda." "We were not treated as prisoners of war," Overly noted. "We were treated as criminals." Regulations posted in the cells began "The criminal will...
...Toole, who appears to have dashed right over from the set of Man of La Mancha, still wearing his same makeup; and various excellent character actors like Vivien Merchant, Glynis Johns and Victor Spinetti. The film is actually brief, but it seems ruthlessly long, like being trapped in an endless high school assembly...