Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic heroic response to a virtually feudal situation. Yet David, in defending himself against the threat to what Robert Ardrey would call his territorial imperative, soon becomes as bestial as the attackers. Peckinpah asserts with gripping, merciless logic that any man, no matter how cold or cowardly, is capable of committing the most appalling violence -and of enjoying it. "You never took a stand," Amy accuses David early in the film; when he finally does, he acts not from any sense of honor but from animal instinct. The assault on the cottage and his defense of it produce...
...cute little street urchin who teaches Joe the city's lore. Joe leaves to search for his brother, takes up with a veteran hobo, and heads west. Their journey plays like Huckleberry Finn without the cruelty, and by softening their occasional scrapes with reality, Widerberg weakens the logic of Joe's conversion to radicalism...
...being so close to the subject made Wilhelma believer in extra terrestrial life? "It is simply too arrogant a presumption to say flat out that kind humans are alone in the universe," he says. "Sometimes this kind of mystical belief rings truer than the cleanest scientific logic. That's why I dig Shelley's poetic leap of faith: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity...
False hopes, blackmail and red tape were used as well. Yet to read the Medvedevs' unruffled testimony is to believe -perhaps a bit too easily-that demolishing their inquisitors' tangled logic was child's play. It undoubtedly took a very clear mind and great emotional stability to stand up to such harassment. On the other hand, most of the psychiatrists appear to suffer from unresolved authority conflicts. Take the exasperated analysis of Medvedev bv one Dr. Lifshits, the book's most visible villain: "Another person with his intellect would be able in time to adjust...
...Bald Soprano was not the product of our baser thirteen year old instincts. After a childhood of Dick and Jane and Landmark hero stories it was delightful to read lonesco. The nonsensical alliteration, the rapid non-sequitur of outrageous cliches and, most of all, the abandonment of oppressive logic was wonderful for our stunted Junior High School minds. It was our first taste of intellectual mirth...