Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem at first to be conceived as a partial homage to the Italian Renaissance. It is a windless, ideal space where the light never changes and shadows do not move. Human figures are either distant specks or huge, sculptural presences-bronze father figures on plinths, reclining "classical" marbles or faceless wooden dummies. But this world has none of the solidity of Renaissance townscape. Instead, it is enigmatic and spectral; the perspectives tilt irrationally and contradict one another, the façades are cardboard, the inhabitants ghosts. "These characters in costume who gesticulate under a 'real...
TomCourtenay's Ivan is a large part of the problem. His face is too expressive and his presence too strong to portray a lisping, faceless prisoner. His third person narration throughout the film locates him as a sophisticated, detached observer who understands all his own pain. But this observation is completely incongruous with the ingenuous naiviete with which he asks a fellow prisoner "Where does the moon go each month if it doesn't break up into the stars...
...Those faceless Eurocrats in Brussels take much of the blame. Another villain is European labor. Suspicious, hidebound, determinedly parochial and frozen in attitudes that were current in the '20s, the unions have become the successors to the conservative agrarian parties of 19th century Europe...
...Faceless revolutionaries, men beyond the call of any sense of moral decency or reason is the image of the prisoners at Attica and of George Jackson which the authorities in California and New York have attempted to persuade the public to accept. To a large degree, the authorities were successful. Abetted by the Establishment media, they mustered all the representations of the prisoner as a dark and irrational man justly separated from the world of civilized men that have appeared in B-grade films and novels and armed these stereotypes with the most explosive rhetoric of insurrection and hate...
Maurice Hall is an uncommonly ordinary human being who manages to pass without distinction through public school and on to Cambridge. He is one of the faceless, colorless many, bred in England's pockets of middle-class provincialism...