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...behind the stultifying atmosphere of England's rigidly stratified society, Orwell exulted in the vitality of Barcelona's blossoming egalitarianism, in the salutations of "Comrade" to strangers and the notices in barber shops proclaiming that barbers were no longer "slaves." In one of his finest passages Orwell describes his flash encounter with a young, tough-faced Italian militiaman in the international troops' barracks. The gap of language, of nationality, of blood and class background that separates them vanishes when Orwell reads in his face that he would do anything--even commit murder--for a friend. "With his shabby uniform...
...weathered and eroded it, piling monument upon monument. The contentions of monarchs and empires have stained it with blood, have wearied and refreshed its landscape repeatedly with mosques and cathedrals and fortresses. In the ebb and flow of histories and cultures it has time and time again been a flash-point where Aryan and Semite, Christian and Moslem met in a death embrace...
Chris Jagger is Mick's brother but otherwise doesn't seem to have done much to distinguish himself. He's at the Performance Center this week, where big name and big flash often seem to take precedence over good music...
...class composition of the revolutionaries is really besides the point. The film is a call to action, and it ends with an address to the Argentine laborers: "Only the people's war will liberate the people," says a voice while scenes of demonstrating workers flash by on the screen. It is a tribute to The Traitors' engrossing plot and to its humanistic cinematography that such a class war seems not only justifiable but necessary. It seems the only way out of the oppressive poverty and unending exploitation the Argentine worker suffers...
...traditional forms. He juggles, walks a tightrope--or at least makes it easy to believe that's what he's doing up there on that bare stage. In one truly amazing sequence, as if to show off, he completely alters his expression a dozen times with a passing flash of his hand...