Word: fishermanly
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...deal with the temptation that befalls him. Since the story is told through his eyes, and because in his profound spiritual guilt he can no longer distinguish between the real and the fantasized, his shame and uncertainty color the movie. At least this much is clear: Yanos, an ordinary fisherman, saves from the river a naked girl. His wife revives her and easily accepts into the family this quiet, mysterious stranger whose past--even the attempted suicide--remains unexplained. Yanos, however, is powerfully attracted to her and is caught between his (to him) unacceptable desires and his consequent unresolvable guilt...
...owes many thanks to his cast, especially to his principal trio, for establishing a delicate imbalance of mood and then duplicating that same mood a year later. Rade Markovic as Yanos conveys the full range of his character's emotions and turns of personality without losing sight of the fisherman's basically uncommunicative nature. Milena Dravic portrays the wife as simple and innocent of her husband's lust without allowing her to appear to be simply stupid. Her pleasure in having a companion forms a perfect counterpoint to Yanos turbulent feelings towards the intruding girl...
...Woods is Western desert land. All that roams over it now is a cartoon of Kit Carson (Will Hussung). The hero, Winnebago (Hal Holbrook), though Indian by name, is really our old friend the emotionally parched middle-aged American. He has wandered into this wasteland thinking it a fisherman's dream. It is of course the familiar American Dream, bathetically symbolized by Winnebago's dying daughter...
...freedom, like meal time. Once they become violent, there's not much they can do except occupy a building and take hostages. Once you have a building and some hostages, what do you do next? You announce your demands. But suppose you had no plans. You are like the fisherman with an enchanted sturgeon on his line: quick, make three wishes...
...tore off for a weed bed and snapped the 20-lb. test line like a kite string. That evening under the oaks I told of my adventure with a "lunker as big as a beer barrel in this special hole in the backwaters." "Where's the hole?" one fisherman asked. "Where?" I just smiled...