Word: illusionality
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No individual hero is celebrated in The Four Days, no single villain vilipended. The hero is Naples, the villain is war. Director Nanni Loy, a 37-year-old Sardinian whose two previous pictures attracted little attention, set out to record a mass movement, and he has done so with stunning...
Loy's camera contributes equally to the illusion. With the help of a telescopic lens it plunges the spectator like spaghetti into the boiling core of every battle-he goes in stiff with tension and comes out limp with fatigue. It holds him still and explodes a mob in...
In this sort of book, there is no total to arrive at. Nothing makes any waking sense. But it makes a powerful, deeply disturbing dream sense. Nothing in the book seems to have been thrown in arbitrarily, merely to confuse, as is the case when inept authors work at illusion...
The plot is unimportant: an old guard (Walter Macken) and a young guard (Patrick McGoohan) wait tensely for a reprieve to arrive for the quare fellow (prison slang for a condemned man), and when it fails to arrive they lead him grimly to the gallows. What matters is the compelling...
The Elusive Corporal. "The young man who has not wept is a savage," said George Santayana, "and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." In Grand Illusion, made in 1937, when he was 43, Jean Renoir wept for the worlds that die in wars. In Corporal, made...