Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reflections in a Golden Eye ends suddenly and violently. Its final image, an extended shot, is the one the audience carries away with it. But as a whole, the movie is unsatisfying. It is challenging and aggressive in theme, but fitfully welded together and occasionally downright dull...
...film about latent homosexuality, adultery, and various forms of human perversion, Reflections in a Golden Eye moves pretty slowly. John Huston's latest offering glides languidly through a series of loosely-tied scenes, punctuated by flashes of nudity (male and female) and spasms of sudden violence. The movie's general torpor is heightened by someone's decision, presumably Huston's to shoot through a filter that allowed only forms of red to record properly. All other colors show up black and white but red all over. It is difficult to go through the film without idly wondering...
...episodic nature of Reflections in a Golden Eye apparently results from its attempt to include the substance of the Carson McCullers novel on which it is based. The movie skips from point to point, initially dwelling on the female lead's (Elizabeth Taylor) affair with her husband's immediate superior at a Georgia army base. It swoops in on an enlisted man's strange infatuation with Miss Taylor, swipes briefly at the mental illness of the superior officer's wife, and finally lands on the theme it ends with, the even stranger, growing infatuation of Miss Taylor's husband (Marlon...
...most distinguished scholars at an international conference on the world crisis in education, Johnson deplored the fact that man's "awesome talent for destruction" still competes with his "determination to build." He posed, as a key question of the age: "Can we train a young man's eye to absorb learning as eagerly as we train his finger to pull a trigger...
Useful Guide. Toynbee has a very human eye for detail-but with a scholarly difference. Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, pleases him because it has escaped the "geometer"-the builder who lays out cities as grids. But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present...