Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Damned takes place almost entirely within the mansion of a German industrialist family (the Krupps?) during the years when Hitler was consolidating his power within Germany. Presumably what happens within the confines of the mansion is a microcosm of what is happening in the nation outside-but that's neither important nor worth thinking about. What is important is the incredible richness of the film visually: blood, transvestism, child molestation and all the rest come together to form a lushly orchestrated grand opera of emotional sickness. To be sure, Visconti has indulged himself to the fullest: he takes his sweet...
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?. Taking place during the same year as The Damned (1933). They Shoot Horses also uses its more or less single setting (a depression dance marathon) as a microcosm for a whole society...