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Even this ideological struggle, however, soon collapses into a predictable triangle: the fiercely-independent June, her caring but impotent lover, and jealous abusive ex-husband. One can't help feeling disappointed when June interrupts the love-making scene with the excuse-confession that her husband used to beat her. For all her proud determination, she seems less a heroine than yet another victim of an early marriage and thwarted ambitions. Somehow, this is supposed to be the justifying grounds for transforming her misogyny and defensive cry of "leave me alone!" into a model for all independent women. In general...
Also on the set is the Ballplayer (Gary Busey), jealous Jolting Joe, who simmers and frets and generally acts betrayed. The man who has come to represent genial Mr. Coffee is nothing but an oversized gum-chewing adolescent, as idiotically captivated by his own fame as are his fans. The big brute is more than just a moron, he's an oxymoron...
...confusion mounts during the second half of the movie, in which killing after killing jars any viewers the movie's beginning may have put to sleep. Dominic Prizzi contracts Irene (whom he doesn't know is Charlie's wife) to kill Charlie, with whom he has a jealous rivalry. Don Prizzi tells his godson that he wants him to take over the family. The Don rids to the family of Dominic by shipping him-off to Las Vegas with a set of sterling golf clubs. Charlie decides to kill Dominic, just to make sure it's not a trap...
...Mary Quite Contrary, and she still seems to delight in offering a chair for her subject, merely to yank it away at the appropriate moment. In her lecture "Living with Beautiful Things," she discusses collections of great art, then decides, "By contrast to the ear, the eye is a jealous, concupiscent organ, and some idea of ownership or exclusion enters into our relation with visual beauty." From there it is a quick step to the conclusion, "Quite poisonous people, on the whole, are attracted by the visual arts and can become very knowledgeable about them. This is much less true...
...MAJOR PROBLEM with Sarah Phillips is the question of alliances. Although Sarah is honest about others' prejudices, is she aware enough to see the racism that makes her jealous of a childhood friend who has lighter skin and longer hair? Is the fact that she always describes herself as a "light-skinned" Black simply a physical reality, or the racism of a Black pigmentocrat...