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...unhappiness of the others. After Lena's suicide he is stricken with guilt and determines to work a "miracle" to prove that things need not be the wretched way they are. He returns home with Karen and in the film's last scene he works his miracle, teaching her mute child how to speak...
...that exposes the alternately tragic and comic tensions of unrequited loves and lives. The caustically self-pitying Uncle Vanya (Nicol Williamson), who has worked the estate along with his niece Sonya (Elizabeth Wilson), realizes that he has sacrificed his life in the service of a pompous academic fraud. The mute adoration he offers Elena bores and annoys...
...horse or a horse that talks like a man." Opting for the former, Abramovitz devises an act of his own in which he begs the circus audience to set him free from the body of a horse and the tyranny of his Master, who fittingly is a dead-mute. Not surprisingly, Abramovitz's pleas are met only with titters of incomprehension and embarrassed silence. In a fight with his Master, he is liberated from his horse's body -- from the waist up. Good news would be unacceptable news for Malamud, so his hero becomes only half a man, cantering "across...
Which brings us to Wheels and The Farmer's Daughter. Barmaids. The Farmer's Daughter because she was and Wheels... well, Wheels because she had nice legs. But to call her Wheels lessens the chauvinism, and surrounds her instead with a sense of mute admiration. Lou Brock has "the good wheels." So'd Bob Hayes. And mute admiration is the whole point. In the context. I'm thinking of the swirling nature of the activity, and simultaneously, its centering down on the individuals at each table, so that each group contributes its individuality to the whole...
Bergman Films. Persona (1966) is an extremely complex, psychologically sophisticated work about a mute actress who is accompanied by a young nurse to an empty house on the sea where the two, in a sense, merge or change identities. A work of poetic images that can be appreciated on many levels, it may be Bergman's best film. The Passion of Anna (1969) is also very good, and The Touch (1971)--well, what could you expect from Bergman and Elliot Gould...