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...curious but handled without any major blunders, and the Trotsky theme does make the important point that the world--the world that Stavisky thinks is simply an oyster waiting to be raped--is a very serious world indeed. Resnais is trying to take advantage of the audience's knee-jerk response to celebrity by incarnating a great historical figure in his film; anything Trotsky does is interesting simply because he is Trotsky. Resnais can just sit back and register the impact of his effects without working very hard for them...
...with the rifle shows up only seconds after the film of the president being shot seems to demonstrate, from the backward jerk of his head and body, that the bullet or bullets which killed him came from in front of the car, perhaps precisely from the spot--known to students of the assassination as the "grassy knoll"--where the man with the rifle is situated. Lee Harvey Oswald, of course, supposedly shot President Kennedy from in back of him, out of a window in the Texas School Book Depository. The filmed evidence of the actual shooting, which certainly seems...
...scour the sidewalks and pizza parlors, distributing their literature. A little blond boy of about four chants in his mother's arms, "Who's got the money? Who makes the rules? Kids can't learn in racist schools." Suddenly the march halts. It creeps forward. There is a spasmodic jerk back. A spray of placards spumes to the pavement. All is quiet. Then it erupts...
...sudden claim to wealth and freedom after a strict orphanage upbringing. At times Creamer defends the Babe by pitting hospital appearances against callousness towards young fans, and interspersing charitable gestures with overwhelmingly wretched extravagance. But when he is through juggling, Ruth still comes out looking like something of a jerk. Sure, Creamer's case for Ruth as a great star is flawless, but in the end Creamer runs out of intimates confiding that Ruth really was the great man he was supposed to be. Ruth's life was colorful, but sportswriters blew it out of proportion. When he quipped that...
...bless him with an awful lot above the eyes," he said. "I'm afraid Gerry is a jerk...