Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...sent home by Pediatrician David Haskin. Hours later, Kelly was rushed back to the hospital, too late. Clotting blood from an artery severed by a skull fracture had put too much pressure on his brain stem. He was permanently paralyzed from the neck down and was also left mute. His IQ of 140 was not seriously affected, and he now communicates by flicking his eyes-left for yes, right for no, up and down for "I don't know." But he will need round-the-clock attendants for the rest of his life. Told of the 13-year...
Sontag argued that the film could not be understood in terms of plot. To do so would necessitate strict identification of each scene as real or imaginary, destroying the coherence built up from the disjoint opening images. The film presents an actress whose mental condition has suddenly left her mute. She is accompanied by a young nurse to an empty house on the sea. There they somehow merge or change identities--most people got that far, but that's, not very far at all. The film is not a puzzle but a meditation, Sontag said, and that interpretation is Simon...
...this be understood to mean? More than likely. It is not an equation of levels of terror, tons of bombs at thousands of civilians killed on German and American battlefields: instead, it is a comparison of the attitudes of mind that kept Germans under Hitler and American under Nixon mute before the crimes of their governments...