Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important for ghetto children to understand and respect the police, it is just as essential that we whom adults are fond of calling "leaders of tomorrow" also gain insight into the fact that policemen are human beings. I think I get the message...
...detachment, judging her without contemplation. She is after all, systematically murdering the five men responsible for the accidental death of her husband just following the wedding ceremony. The relative innocence of the five men is established quickly, so Julie's singular passion could appear unreasonable were we not given insight into her character, a share in her reactions, through point-of-view. Truffaut's desire is to create a moral ambiguity with regard to pedestrian questions of good and evil: we are not allowed to judge either Julie or her victims guilty or innocent and can only concentrate...
Babe's jogging insight is thus reflected in the careful contrivances of plot elements. The dialogue is truly gifted for its dramatically effective journalism and in addition there is Babe's irresistable sense of wit, a dark and noxious poison that one sniffs for the resulting quiver...
...contact. There would have to be some way to positively identify the contact; and some sort of password system, so the contact would know that we were worthy of further information. By reducing the phrase "Meter Maid" to "Meet a maid" the Bryn Mawr girls had provided a profound insight. Given that you could get to the right place at the right time, the contact could be identified as a "maid," that is, a girl. There are two ways to make a maid-girl distinctive: She could be wearing a maid's uniform; or she could wear medieval clothes, like...
...Madame Irma's "visitors" are played as vain effeminates, sexless transvestites who, when gathered together in the last act, remind one of the opening of Macbeth played in drag. Similarly, Irma is conceived as the Madam of an answering service, a nervous dike devoid of femininity and consequent feminine insight. This is supported by the text often, particularly in the dialogue with Carmen, but it annihilates any credibility to her stated relationship with Georges, the chief of police. Genet's contradictions work better set in a world where men are more-or-less men and women women; when...