Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union's own role in the Communist movement. In the heady days after the war, Americans felt, as French Journalist André Fontaine says, "that they were the best, most capable and most qualified to act as disinterested policemen in a world destined to remain imperfect." Since then, the police metaphor has become a cliché and the feeling less valid than ever...
...there just want their drugs and music, courtesy of MGM or Warner, it doesn't matter. The ballgame was over for the Vulgar Marxists; that's what Peter Townshend was saying as he clubbed Abbie Hoffmann off the stage (no, it's not in the movie). The game metaphor had won out. Politics is a game, see, and if you play politics you play their game. Controlling your own life is a Western myth, man, part of the free will game, 'cause it's in the stars of your own karma, so you'll just have to let it happen...
...suffers from the somewhat shopworn metaphor that forms its core. Billy (David Bradley) is a melancholy loner whose older brother bullies him and whose mother plays aunt to a succession of one-night uncles. Wandering in the woodlands near his Yorkshire village one morning, he spots a kestrel's nest and becomes intrigued with the bird's grace, its power and freedom. He steals a book on falconry, steals one of the kestrel's offspring and proceeds, with quiet dedication, to train the bird, which he calls Kes. The obvious contrast between earthborn Billy and skyborne...
...city, a "honky killer" is gunning down lovers. The police are confounded; no one is free; citizens on the outside are as cursed as the purebreds and mutts on the inside. The bullets ricochet, the gas jets open . . . Here Downey is filming on dangerous ground, here his central metaphor founders-and with it the whole movie. No artist in this century can create a death camp without triggering historical memories of the obscene, of Auschwitz, Treblinka and Dachau. These are monuments of evil, not toys to be manipulated by a gnatweight philosopher...
...moving two blocks down Central Park West, but Jaffe proves incapable of coping with that humdrum task. In a running routine that is a very low mutation of Kafka, Jaffe is consistently unable to persuade the anonymous moving man to move his furnishings. This is supposed to be a metaphor for Jaffe's general ineffectuality; it comes across as merely improbable...