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...lavishly catered sojourn at the Kona Kai, a San Diego club controlled by Smith. Another time Tony Alessio hosted a fishing trip for a guard and three of his friends that ended with a surprise bonus: two nude prostitutes who came dancing out of the bathroom in their motel suite...
...Maria's people don't make love, they fuck. They don't enjoy that very much either. Maria and B.Z. share the tenderness of fellow travellers, but it dies there. It's a mechanized automatic world whose chief symbol is the car. "Not many children around?" Maria asks a motel housekeeper. "I used to have one," the woman replies. "She totalled my Chevy...
Joey's ongoing affair with Sally is supplemented by other encounters. The Motel Lady takes him for her own, and he saunters into the boudoir of the 250-pound proprietress at her beck and call, always with the blank pleasantness we reserve for meeting long-lost aunts. The teenage unwed mother is Sally's only child, Jessie (Pat Ast), who constantly sends her mother into hysterical fits ("You're not a lesbian--it's a temporary thing!"), especially with her half-successful attempts at seducing Joey. And the standard symbolic figures of Hollywood sterility abound: the cliche-laden director...
...last scene, in which her attempt to kill the faithless Joey evokes only audience guffaws as the gun fails to shoot, adds insult to injury; this is the major emotional crisis of Sally's life, and Morrissey turns it into a farce. Likewise, the constant use of the Motel Lady's physical ugliness as a stimulus to laughter is on a level with the playground viciousness young children often direct towards the physically "different...
...Heat had no choice but to rely on absurd and repulsive caricature, and the cheap humor that goes with it; if a film is unable or unwilling to achieve a true understanding of its characters, there is little else with which to gain hold of an audience. As the Motel Lady offers in defense of her preoccupation with pornographic comic books: "If you can't get it all the time, you make...