Word: facelessness
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WHAT GILLIAM GIVES us here is a masterpiece of irony--inhumanity with a human face. The same storm-troopers who destroy the Buttle home are later seen relaxing among themselves, complaining about how hot their uniforms are, and even practicing Christmas carols. Within the Ministry itself, barried, faceless clerks evade the hawkish eyes of their supervisors in order to watch Casablanca on their telescreens. Although these people are serving under a brutal system, they are nonetheless living creatures, unlike the automatons of Orwell's novel. There is even a resistance movement, evidencing itself in a variety of sudden explosions, which...
CALVINO PROVIDES US with no photograph of Mr. Palomar, only a hyper-assemblage of words shifting to reveal observations and insights. If we see faceless Mr. Palomar at all, it is usually by looking through his eyes. We know of Mr. Palomar what we know of the sky-wheeling flock of starlings that he observes...
...should have seen." Amazing Stories has no continuing characters, tone or stars--not even a regular host, like Hitchcock or Rod Serling. Viewers may prefer to settle in with Angela Lansbury's rumpled caginess in Murder, She Wrote instead of taking a chance with the faceless brilliance of the Spielberg series...
Siskel (pursing his ever-thinning lips): "No, Roger, I'm afraid your aged mind has got it all wrong. I've always had a profound respect for Steinman's vision. Why, take part 5: it's devastating, just devastating. All obsessions with characterization are gone. Instead, we have 30 faceless figures, paragons of modern man, wandering around, not doing anything at all interesting, just waiting in line until their inevitable slaughter. It's a disutopia that would terrify even Kafka...
...Faceless...