Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the film takes frequent detours into the realms of paranoia and blind hatred. There is a portrait of a white Italian cop (Don Gordon) so foamingly, arbitrarily vicious that it moves beyond believability into hysteria. That is the worst territory possible for a social documentary, albeit a fictional...
...amount of sterilized sociological data can refute the fact that inside the "intellectual mafia" the elite sometimes gangs up to wield its power in peevish and arbitrary ways. Still Kadushin's study should reduce some of the paranoia that frequently afflicts non-New York intellectuals. For example, the reasons that Jews account for one half of his list are historical and cultural, not part of some ethnic conspiracy. Moreover, some of the nastiest splits and squabbles in literary New York have occurred between Jews. When Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz published Making It in 1968, for example, another Jewish editor...
...Fritz and likewise of this sequel - as squalid and witless an assembly of animation as could be imagined. By comparison, the Bakshi version looks like Fantasia. To escape the shrill accusations of his wife, Fritz drifts off into cannabis reveries where his libido can run unchecked and where his paranoia eventually assumes control. He idles back to the high-stepping 1930s, then works his way up to the present and a visit with a Bowery bum, whom he accidentally immolates. In the film's most elaborate episode, he eases himself off into the future...
This tension takes its toll on Serpico's personal life. He loses one girlfriend, then another; he is friendless on the job. His isolation and paranoia increase as he is left alone and brooding, and he buys a bigger and better gun to defend himself with. By the time he is finally shot, he seems near madness from the accumulated pressure...
Last year's Summer School students watched their T.V.'s as John Dean told of paranoia in the White House and implicated Richard Nixon in the crimes that have come to be known as Watergate. This year we will probably watch the drama be unfolded in even more detail as the House conducts its impeachment hearings...