Word: pilgrimate
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...hellhole they are in. But the metaphor is grand, the allegory clothes the powerful narrative as patterns clothe a python. In his second film, a 37-year-old Japanese painter named Hiroshi Tesh-igahara has transformed a tricky-turgid novel into a luminous and violent existential thriller, an Oriental Pilgrim's Progress...
...Harvard is not that bad really. Rather than smothering the dissident it more often sharpens individual dramas. The undergrad Pilgrim comes to Harvard, reputedly some kind of paradise, having been elected by a mysterious lottery in Holyoke Center. The problem is to justify one's election. So we see people scrutinizing their lives and working out their personal salvation through the Rank List, among the Young Dems or through civil rights work, etc. And if they also choose to have love affairs, the University is in no position to stop them. Harvard pretty much leaves its students alone...
...Andrew Pilgrim (Fred Clark) is a renowned academic scientist who is deep in debt. He has a handsome offer from a corporation called Baldwin-Nelson. Pilgrim is a kind of disorganization man. He plays the cello and knows all about ultrasonic energy, but he cannot turn off the vacuum cleaner or find his shoelaces. His wife (Ruth White) pens scholarly works on dead languages...
...interviewer from Baldwin-Nelson coming, they decide to act so square that they could pass for cubes. Out goes the cello; in comes a dust-laden TV set. Copies of the Reader's Digest and McCall's are scattered about. "Where'd you get these?" asks Pilgrim in wonderment. "I subscribe to the incinerator," comes the answer...
...Baldwin-Nelson, only "the questioning mind must ask the same questions we ask." He describes the familial intimacy of corporate life, complete with a tidy housing development ("Some of the houses are colonial, some Tudor, but the best ones are both"). After further visits by the org man, Pilgrim decides to end the demeaning charade, only to find that the interviewer has seen through the conformity act all along, and has a few cellos of his own hidden away...