Word: paranoid
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...ideas in the drama are plainly paranoid but they are also vivid, and in this competent translation and production they make for vivid theater of ideas. But the drama is diminished at every point to the petty scale of Sartre's vision of reality. It is true enough, even in a religious sense, that man is his life and nothing else, but it is also true that there are more things in man's life than are dreamt of in Sartre's philosophy...
...whole world is in danger! Not just a few people but the whole world! It's the greatest conspiracy of all time!" What conspiracy? The heroine (Betty Schneider) does not know. She only knows what she has been told by a possibly paranoid American (Daniel Crohem): that a young man (Giani Esposito) she has just met is "next." The idea obsesses her. It sounds like a mischievous fiction, but suppose it isn't? And if it isn't, can she save the young man's life...
Whodunit? The hero himself? The American? The Organization? Does the Organization actually exist? Is it just a paranoid delusion? Is the film a study of psychic contagion? an attack on the creeping totalitarianism of modern life? an intricate exercise in confusion? Director Rivette has suggested the explanation he prefers. "My picture is the adventure of a theory-in turn proposed, set aside, revived, distorted, exhausted. The end cancels the original intention. Nothing has really taken place but the scenes themselves." How true...
...decade ago, however, the undergraduates' perfect mark was threatened by a theological who had been consulting the student Services psychiatrists. Labelled paranoid by the Harvard doctors, the student responded admirably to treatment, but he soon broke off his studies and visits to psychiatrists and journeyed down to Yale. His relationship New Haven doctors seemed to lack something for a little more than six months after leaving Cambridge he shot and killed a phyciatrist and his wife...
...sexual intercourse of various kinds has always been carried on in Paris, as he recites the squalid life, loves, and even more squalid conversation of the human fauna of Montparnasse: opulent and heavily gartered Tania; Van Norden (now reputedly a New York newspaperman) who loves a poxy and paranoid Russian cryptoprincess; the girls who sit around their brothel parlors scratching themselves "like chimpanzees"; the tortured expatriate Fillmore who cries out the tragicomedy of the Lost Generation: "Sure, I hate those puritanical buggers back home-I hate 'em with all my guts. But I'm one of them myself...