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CASTRO'S COSTUMES are interesting variations on the usual Roman garb: robes looped and pinned in assorted way, often split up the sides exposing the loin-cloths beneath. Caligula wears especially formidable garments, a black robe in the first act, a red robe in the second, and in the death scene a combination of colors contrasting the themes of Eros and Thanatos. The multi-level set mixes Roman with primitive, cleverly suggesting the conflict between civilization and repressed primal instincts. A pool in the center of the stage allows the actors to stare into the water and look miserable...
...anything to set her off, given her behavior in the rest of the film; all the acupuncture does is serve as an excuse for what, predictably, happens next. The scene in Bali, while slightly less predictable, is little more believable. An exotic ritual with fifty chanting native men in loin clothes around a sacred lamp, it is reminiscent only of a Kellogg's Puffa Puffa Rice commercial...
...Stick-thin and lemur-eyed, he was the Daniel Boone of southern Mindanao, a solitary Filipino who wandered an unexplored 600-sq. mi. tract of rugged mountain jungle. One day in the early '60s, he followed a trail of strange footprints. Three small brown men, naked except for loin pouches made of leaves, were digging up a large root with a sharp stick. When they saw him, they fled like monkeys. Shouting reassurance, Dafal gave chase until the men stopped in a stream bed, trembling...
Caught in the wink of a photographer's lens, they stand to gether smiling, rock-'n'-roll women in sequined chiffon and funky jeans. But they pay dearly for success. The rock business is a road business. Once the euphoria of the first room-service sir loin evaporates, they inherit a numbing chronology of concrete tunnels, cold buffets and limousine-driving dopers...
Perhaps the film's most admirable aspect is its relatively evenhanded portrayal of Stone's politics. At one point, Stone, a former communist anarchist, ridicules Nixon's pose as peacemaker: "He thinks he's Mahatma Nixon, a man in a loin cloth." But later, Stone, the self-proclaimed "counterrevolutionary," wonders aloud before a student audience whether youthful revolutionary fervor might not be the product of unresolved adolescent crises. Without criticizing Stone's published work in depth, Bruck at least does justice to his subject's conflicting impulses...