Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After another long, depressing day as a secretary, my spirits were lifted by reading your article on the Total Woman. I am no longer embarrassed that my goal in life is to be a wife and mother, rather than pound a typewriter or even be an executive. But I am also grateful to the women's liberation movement for allowing me the chance to choose...
...crisis between father and son, which becomes the focus of the novel and provides its organizing structure, is superbly done. The dialogue among father, son and mother rings true, moves well, and develops a depth of character behind the tanned affluent faces living by the Pacific. Men like Robert's father exist, and not surprisingly, they raise sons like Robert--bright, handsome, athletic and graceful, and totally unprepared to meet their first crisis of responsibility...
Since that is really all Mother Kusters ever wanted, it makes a nice ending to a nice picture-humane and even-handed in its application of irony and skepticism. Still, one could wish for something more from prolific Director Fassbinder, 31, who has made 27 films and a career for himself as the obligatory German on the international film festival circuit...
...forced and slapdash. Fassbinder is restless in an uninspired sort of way with his camera-as if he distrusts the holding power of the dialogue and the situations he is covering. And well he might be. Whether from left or right, there is something terribly predictable about the way Mother Kusters' tormentors reveal their duplicity. The film makes all the right comments about what is wrong with a lot of things these days, but it does not speak very artfully about these matters - except when Actress Mira's eyes are allowed to do its thinking, and its talking...
...Benno Blimpie (James Coco) is no freak in spirit. In his desperate need for love, his touching vulnerability, and his wistful desire for the approval of other children, he is linked to every human being who ever has been or ever will be born. His mother (Rosemary De Angelis), an embittered witch, treats Benno like scum and heaps epithets on him like offal. His father (Roger Serbagi) does not hate Benno, but one minute is about the attention span of his concern, so it comes to the same thing. Denied, neglected, degraded by everyone he turns to, Benno devours...