Word: missteps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nichols and the writers (novelist Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick) are treading a fine high wire; one misstep and off you tumble into self-satire, the modern horror film's omnipresent danger. But by provoking authentic laughter with their satirical thrusts at current corporate styles (Spader is a hilarious model of yuppie unctuousness), they make sure we are amused often and always at the right moments. If Nichols had less skill, we would crack up when the moon is full and Nicholson's stunt double starts leaping around the countryside, but using low light and slow motion, the director displays...
Your fatal misstep...
Arms flailing, body cavorting, he seemed to slice and move like a Shonen Knife song. He did twists, he did turns, he did a bunch of spinaround thingies, performing flawlessly--with the exception of one misstep (which was met with an obnoxious groan by the announcer)--for a five-minute period which seemed like an hour...
...bungee cords. Oh, and Willem Dafoe as a death figure named Emit Flesti -- which makes sense only when spelled backward, and then not nearly enough. But Wenders has always worked on the wild side; even his previous film, the botched Until the End of the World, was a misstep so grand and elaborate it was like a clown's jig on a high wire. In Faraway, So Close! the dance lasts almost until the end of the film. And for those two hours it seems almost seraphic...
...soon develops a near Godlike sense of immortality. He imperturbably noshes strawberries, to which he previously had a deadly allergy. He stands on the edge of high buildings daring the winds or a misstep to carry him away. He deliberately crashes his car into a wall at high speed. Nothing can touch him -- except the plight of Carla, who has been reduced to an almost catatonic state by grief. He feels compelled to bring her back to life, and he is quite obnoxious in this, his final rescue attempt...