Word: insightfulness
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Daniel Aaron thinks that the Civil War has never been properly treated in American literature because the issue of race created an emotional resistance blurring literary insight. That is the central and most provocative thought of his book, The Unwritten...
...rides across the beach to destroy Mother Nature's last stand--a 2001-type monolith which, in this case, is a wooden post. But what can the poor boy do? Why, he just takes out a syringe and shoots up. Society has destroyed its middle-class child, and an insight often stated in a well-written paragraph has been clumsily transformed into an atrocious two-hour film...
...points out at the beginning the obvious conflict between the songs of revolution which CSN&Y sang and the ever-rising prices they charged for concert tickets. But he never takes responsibility. His view of the world leaves him out of it. Had he carried the implications of his insight to their logical conclusion, he certainly wouldn't have spent so much money on a lousy film that never transcends the obvious...
ISRAEL WHY is a three-hour-plus French documentary that explains very little but testifies to Director Claude Lanzmann's feeling of deep kinship with the country. Lanzmann is not, like Marcel Ophuls, a film essayist of strong and disturbing insight, and he is not an especially acute documentarian either. He has caught some moments of warmth, others of search and irresolution and precipitate fulfillment, but the question posed in the title remains unanswered...
...hours) and rigidly intimate scope: mostly three characters, a young man (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a young girl (Franchise Lebrun) and an older woman (Bernadette Lafont), toying with one another, taunting and seducing one another, finally vanquishing one another. The movie is direct and relentless, full of tough insight about the rites of what sometimes passes for love, and fierce in its final impact. Director Jean Eustache wrote the painstakingly accurate script and followed it exactly, though the movie has the flow and spontaneous immediacy of improvisation. Altogether, not a film to rouse a distributor's curiosity, but its impact...