Word: maze
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...prowling camera, in the pairing of shots and situations from different parts of the film, in the gradual muting of the film's colors from flaming orange to blacks and whites as the lovers' passion turns to calculation. There is density in the plot construction, a maze that Ned must negotiate to save his life; Body Heat has more narrative drive, character congestion and sense of place than any original screenplay since Chinatown; yet it leaves room for some splendid young actors to breathe, to collaborate 5 in creating the film's texture...
...prisoners who support the strikers often remind each other bitterly that living may be worse than dying. The cause they cling to is far more compelling than anything in their bleak home neighborhoods. Instead, the prisoners have created their own society inside the Maze that enables them to continue the struggle. Each of the four wings in a block has a commander and an adjutant, and each block has an intelligence officer and an education officer. The inmates speak Gaelic; those who do not know the language are taught inside the prison. The entire hierarchy is run by a shrewd...
...Maze springs alive for the prisoners around midnight when the guards tend to be less alert and less in evidence. The perfect evening is when the air is still, without a trace of wind or rain. Prison leaders shout into the quiet darkness and their voices carry easily between the H-blocks separated by about 100 ft. The men are called "scorchers," an anglicization of the Gaelic word scairt, for shout, and they fill the air with orders and questions and plain gossip. Sometimes they conduct quiz shows, asking questions about entertainment figures, geography, history. When someone wins, a cheer...
...always, as life goes on in the Maze, the I.R.A. men are inspired and haunted by those who are about to die. The fate of the hunger strikers dominates the prison. Guided by orders from outside the Maze, McFarlane and his lieutenants still have a great deal of control over the prisoners and spend hours picking volunteers to replace the strikers who die. The leaders choose grit rather than physical strength, often quoting Bobby Sands, a small man, who said of his own hunger experience: "The body fights back, sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns...
Rebel leader Gerry Adams, 34, recently spent an afternoon with the strikers in the Maze. They gathered in the TV room and, speaking only in Gaelic, Adams told them bluntly there was little chance of anything changing. If the strikers wanted to abandon their fast, he went on, they would not be scorned. They had already done more than could be asked...