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Those familiar two words suggest the appeal of the suicidal America provides crude, coin-operated Magic Theatres for its Steppenwolves, consolation for its lonely citizens. The letters flash by with a large and bright finality that eulogizes the machine's return to programmed peace. The ending taunts the defeated human, America's new opiate lacks the sublimity of Mozart and allows only illusory release. In its cruel and premeditated way, the finish cuts off the little bit of himself that he entrusted to the machine, and leaves only frustration in its place...
...film medium becomes evident in the consistent heavy-handedness of the screenplay. Rather than emerging naturally out of situations, the irony hits the audience relentlessly, pounded in by sledgehammer lines wielded in close-up shots. "Things aren't always what they seem," Gallagher informs Meghan in a flash of inspiration. And in another exchange, a fellow reporter asks Meghan to describe her relationship with Gallagher. "Involved," she says. "Is that true?" the colleague asks. "No, but it's accurate...
...comic or trumpets the dim promises of a politician. The author has previously parodied social-and sexual-intercourse in her novels (The War Between the Tates, The Nowhere City, Real People and Only Children) . In The Language of Clothes, she perceptively treats contemporary fashion as established parody. Paring the flash and roller-glitter of costume, her book becomes an intellectually provocative strip tease. Fashion, claims Lurie, is not the result of commercial brainwashing or a conspiracy of couturiers. Rather, contemporary costumes are the sartorial equivalent of free speech...
...blood in the original, but the sequel ladles on the gore like Chef Boy-ar-dee. Most of the movie takes place in a hospital where Jamie Lee's been hauled after her first bout with the Shape. The targets are mostly nurses. I've always hated nurses. They flash you a frigid smile and when you're not looking they stick a needle in your arm or a tube up your ass. And they're always balling the doctors, particularly when you're in pain and you need them. Used to lie in my hospital bed and wish...
...Negro piano player who dares to chart his own destiny as the two plutocrats did theirs, has seized the Morgan Library to avenge an outrage inflicted on his prized Model T. It is a splendid tale with sweeping images and passions, needing no dialogue-just the occasional flash of a newspaper headline and the sound of a ragtime piano, working its funereal strut...