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Interstate 5, south of Modesto, is one of the most desolate and dreary stretches of road in the world. Skirting Bakersfield. Fresno, Chico, and Merced, it slices north through the unending flatland of California's Great Central Valley. It is a road of dust and heat and pale skies and dull landscapes and garish billboards peeling under the baking sun. Most of the year it is empty...
...Oakland, on the flatland side of Golf Links Road, Sharon Barger, 30, genuinely beautiful, a former Miss Livermore, looks pained when someone remarks on her new front door. "They broke down all our doors," she says. The Barger house, described by the press as "an armed camp," is a five-room bungalow. Sharon's biggest mistake seems to have been an abiding loyalty to her husband, the legendary Sonny Barger. Sonny, now 41, led the Angels through the glory days of the '60s: fighting in bars, terrorizing small towns, dropping acid with Ken Kesey, assaulting antiwar demonstrators...
...short, it is an act of criticism. His "postcards"?melancholy vistas of flatland and horizon, with blotty little figures gazing at some manifestation of Nature or Culture, a pyramid or a rubber stamp masquerading as the moon?are philosophical landscapes. They are parodies of the picturesque...
...flicker of weird warmth that runs across his eyes at the beginning of the film. You aren't quite sure you've seen it, this tiny dilation, but in the first few moments, when a train whistle moans rudely from behind a curve of track in southern flatland and moves into view, a shabby Bronson leaning from the boxcar wearing a cap scrunched down...these few moments of Bronson, and the rustle in his expression when the train rolls by two wastrel children, the change in his eyes not greeting, or even acknowledgement, but only a quick passing of body...
...Ibsen moves his characters to a health resort in the mountains--a look forward to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain where on a peak high above the "real" world, Rubek and Irene are swept away in the mist and snow of a sudden storm. From below, in the bourgeois flatland, resounds the simple voice of Maja in a childish freedom song which is both mocking...