Word: inbetween
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when they run the risk of being silly. So his camera tracks all over the place, with insects and spider webs and skeletons in the foreground, and massive, Gothic, bat-like sets or magical, panoramic English cliffs and countrysides in the background. The bulk of the action occurs inbetween, and Badham reaches it by cutting rapidly or tracking or literally walking up to it, camera jiggling subjectively. Very little happens outside the frame, so we rarely worry about what we can't see, only about how vivid and nauseating what we are about to see will...
...when the general look of the film is dull and formless. Even when you're trying to put across existential banality there's no reason to sacrifice style, but Ashby does. The prison-to-prison closedness of the action seemed to make the moviemakers shove messy details into the inbetween rather than shape new levels of meaning or regulate the rhythm. "Significant" background voices drone constantly, the Anchors Aweigh music is dopey-ironic, and there's an unnecessary and facile glimpse of the kid's mother's room in some tacky New Jersey somewhere--strewn with bottles...
...trained by a sexist system to digest the implications of '69 in the head. After four years I am weary of hard hitting, but I am still angry. And I live with that anger as the one unyielding signpost in my head. I still feel torn like an inbetween--I have my education in how to win a man and keep him built into me, and I often want to turn it on because it is less troublesome. But I feel sick when I do, as if caught in the act of lying for something you don't give...
...spirit glitters in shinbone alley and the kids with no memories and the oldsters with long ones will dig me as for those inbetween...