Word: matchsticks
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Lean supports his matchstick characters with the crudest possible symbolism. Rosy breathes and heaves beside a patch of openmouthed lilies as Doryan appears on the hill. Their couplings-and every potentially significant moment in the film -are drowned by the roar of the surf, the creak of windblown trees, the ta-pocketa-pocketa of a British power generator, and an overpowering score. Perhaps the rudest device of all is the misuse of John Mills as the village idiot who sees all and knows all, but can tell nothing. Like the film itself, it is scarcely worthy of Lean...
Haunted by those pictures of starving children, their eyes bulging, their bodies bloated or matchstick thin, most Americans ask indignantly: Why has the U.S. not done more to relieve such suffering? The answer, of course, is that starvation has been a calculated weapon in the civil war between federal Nigeria and secessionist Biafra. The Nigerians are fearful that arms will flow into Biafra under the cover of relief shipments and therefore insist that aid be shipped in under their supervision. The Biafrans reject such terms because they fear foul play by the federals. The U.S. has been distressed...
...they are not only losing the war: slowly but surely, eight million Biafrans are starving to death. Gradually, the image of Biafra's human agony has unsettled the conscience of the world. That image is of Ibo infants and children with anguished, vacant eyes, distended bellies, shriveled chests and matchstick limbs crippled from edema. The world has protested in the form of silent marches of New Yorkers outside the United Nations building, impassioned debates in Britain's Parliament and West Germany's Bundestag, shillings and sixpences collected by Tanzanian schoolchildren and in the appeal of a "deeply distressed" Pope Paul...
Pantagleize is a fool in Christ, one of nature's eternal innocents. Played with gently preoccupied detachment by Ellis Rabb, an elongated matchstick of a man, Pantagleize casually scratches himself against the world and sets it flaming. It all happens quite inadvertently. He wakes up on his 40th birthday and wonders what his destiny is, or if his destiny is to have no destiny. "What a lovely day," he says, and his destiny begins. The words turn out to be the secret code for starting a revolution...
...iron curtain separates father from son, but only a matchstick partition divides their bedrooms, and that proves woefully inhibiting. Without any psychoanalytical jargonmongering, Naughton shows how every wedding bed contains six people. The tragicomic past of the two sets of parents is part of the couple's current plight...