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After the initial scenes, Christine's character becomes increasingly flat. We learn that she is a witch and a manic man-killer, and that's that. Aside from a few very sinister smiles, she gives little insight into her character--she could just as easily be portraying a determined computer operator...
...film is somewhat interesting, especially in its manic depiction of life on the edge, of people about to go off the deep end, except the inside joke is obscured to the point of non-recognition. It's fun to watch punks, secret agents, and "repo" men--those guys who repossess cars from people behind on their payments--chase each other around; problem is, there's supposed to be a point to it all, and the viewer just doesn...
...settle in to the deceivingly simple morality play. Israel yanks out our chain, as it were. Why marriage? What is marriage but a rationalization of humanity's baser instincts? This is a realization that obviously bothers Israel, and that is why his bachelor party is fueled by an almost manic fear of the next day's ceremonies. The Renoiresque debauch operates almost as a tragic catharsis, an the participants will the demonic spirits that torment them to take flight and be gone...
...children and the world, "was high, about as much in dollars as a top executive made at that time [1950], a bit under the salary of a U.S. ambassador." D. gets her comeuppance in these pages, where her husband describes the mother of three of his children as a manic-depressive alcoholic given to stripping in public and calling herself a whore. As for "good old Boule," the time comes when Simenon must get rid of her too, handing her over to his oldest son's household. He complains: "I can tell that she doesn't fully comprehend...
...Count Claus von Stauffenberg planted under Hitler's conference table a bomb that was supposed to kill the Führer. A shaken and partly deafened Hitler survived to wreak vengeance on the conspirators (even Rommel, who was not directly involved, was forced to take poison) and to add a manic streak to his own supervision...