Word: hoboes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stewart displays one of those rare voices-a raspy, surcharged cross between Joe Cocker and Rod McKuen-that is instantly recognizable and that can draw all sorts of emotional magic from his own songs (Maggie May, Every Picture Tells a Story) as well as standards by Dylan (Only a Hobo) and Elton John (Country Comfort). As a sometime member of the good-time British rock-'n'-roll band known as Faces, he is one superstar who is out mostly to have fun. That includes giving a humorous zing to his guitar playing, handing bottles of wine to lucky...
...widely used symbols are as unequivocal as the hobo markings, however. Some, like the dagger, have multiple meanings. In publishing, the dagger signals a footnote; in biology, it means "obscure species" or "incorrect citation," and in medicine, it symbolizes death. To a farmer, a dot within a semicircle signifies a drinking trough, while to a meteorologist, it means rain that does not reach the earth...
...shots of skid row hits harder than anything else in the picture. Still, Widerberg feels compelled to add a romance nipped at the bud and a cute little street urchin who teaches Joe the city's lore. Joe leaves to search for his brother, takes up with a veteran hobo, and heads west. Their journey plays like Huckleberry Finn without the cruelty, and by softening their occasional scrapes with reality, Widerberg weakens the logic of Joe's conversion to radicalism...
...Hill is so fundamentally wrong in its orientation that one forgets the acting. In fairness to the cast, they play their misconceived roles well; Thommy Berggren as Joe and Evert Anderson as Blackie, the hobo, are especially successful in entertaining while filling out Widerberg's obscure motivations. Still, nothing could save this movie from the apathetic response it deserves. A film about such repression should move one to anger and tears; Joe Hill moves not at all. Hill said "Don't mourn for me," but Bo Widerberg slobbers all over his memory. It is dishonest biography and a worse film...
...Buddy's run-in with the little girl at the lamb chop counter has a significance to Salinger's fictional world that goes beyond the immediate narrative. One author has involved himself to capacity in the life of the very real Glass family while the other is a literary hobo who leaves town as quickly as he came...