Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Politics does not encourage precise thought. "When you begin to shout and find the smile fixing itself on your mouth," Grass says, "you know you're really in politics." Political campaigns are also distracting?as Norman Mailer, the one major writer in the U.S. whose recent course seems to parallel Grass's, recently found out. There are critics who say that Grass will turn from writing to action for good if Willy Brandt should offer him a big enough job in the new government. Grass denies that. As proof, he holds up not only his work in progress...
...Dreams is an improvisational work in which the cast members disclose and interpret their dreams with a stylistic uniqueness that the Pageant Players have engineered, and the Chanukah play relates the Maccabis' struggles against the Greek occupation forces, which is seen as a parallel to the present conflict in Vietnam, reflecting also the role of the American resistance movement against...
...into the University confrontation. The shots are good but impersonal, so Antonioni isolates specific incidents of police brutality and throws the rest away, uninterested in building a structured sequence from purely expository material. The staged part of the confrontation differs radically, with focus shifts and architectural space creating distances (parallel layers. schematically) between conflicting groups of people: Mark-watches-militants-watching-police-watching-building. With emphasis on buildings-their function as barrier and blind as well as their pure form-the slaying of the student becomes a certainty-before-the-fact, given the specific illustration of each faction's partial...
...lurid and apocalyptic sunset which nonetheless represents a kind of natural order; it is identical to the sunset painted on a Bank of America billboard Mark walks vainly toward (in distance-flattening telephoto close shot) early in the film. The difference in their destinies is stated in the parallel...
...radical advances in construction and style, Antonioni returns to a familiar formula: the people are cipher-like, of less consequence to the film than Hemmings in Blow-Up or Monica Vitti in Red Desert. and are often unsecing guidse through elusive situations in abstract environments. Also, we can parallel the student strike footage with the stock market scene in Eclipse: like the earlier film, Zabriskie Point balances personal travelogue with formally spectacular set pieces. The scenes of Daria driving through the desert, and the one of Mark buzzing her car with his an plane, are not travel montages in that...