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...Violently stabbing and dissecting his victims, Hallam is motivated by “war stress” tinged with a strange sort of militant vegetarianism (“Do you know that 5 billion chickens will be slaughtered this year?” he asks an FBI investigator). L.T., Hallam??s former teacher in hand-to-hand combat, is of course the only man fit to intervene...
Nevertheless, Oedipal conflict certainly plays a role in the subtext of the film. Hallam??s spooky taunting of his victims, hunters who search for deer with high powered scopes, applies as much to Friedkin’s directorial predecessors as to the trigger-happy “businessmen from Medford” who become Hallam??s first victims: “There’s no reverence in what...
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