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...closest thing I can think of to describe this movie is a scene from Alan Pakula's The Parallax View. Warren Beatty, a reporter uncovering a assassination conspiracy, finds that the huge Parallax Corporation is recruiting potential killers by a set of complex psychological tests designed to isolate psychopathic traits. He masquerades as a misfit, passes the tests, and is ushered into the mysterious corporate headquarters for further tests. They seat him in a large chair and wire him for blood pressure and visceral reactions, then they begin showing him a movie. The film--brilliantly done--is like the inside...
...PARALLAX VIEW...
...very intelligent either, considering the amount of inept planning in contemporary society. We would probably be better off rethinking-or better yet, not thinking about-the whole dismal business, if only to put an end to ugly and dramatically unsatisfying products like The Parallax View...
...break the conspiracy unaided, it cannot be much of a conspiracy. If, on the other hand, the conspiracy is all powerful, then the audience is robbed of the basic pleasure of identifying with the protagonist's triumph over the odds. Pakula opts for the latter resolution in Parallax and it is a downer. Though a touch of paranoid fantasizing can energize an entertainment, too much of it is just plain crazy-neither truthful nor useful. And certainly nothing for responsible men to try to make a buck with in the movies. ∎ Richard Schickel
...companies, such as G.E. and Xerox, have set up production subsidiaries. Many of the others are putting up the cash and hiring independent production companies or individuals to make their films. Doubleday is making a production deal for a film version of one of its own books, The Parallax View, by Loren Singer; it has contracted for a screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Pretty Poison), and hired Director Michael Ritchie (Downhill Racer). Mattel has worked out an arrangement for eight children's films-what else?-with Producer Robert Radnitz (Misty, A Dog of Flanders); Radnitz is now at work...