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...Collection, your basic agony-of-modern-life Pinter one-act, continues at the Charles St. Meetinghouse on Tuesday and Thursday. Curtain at 8 p.m., tickets...
...Collection, by Harold Pinter, is a typical Pinter play, a long one act show about the games modern people play. At the Charles St. Meetinghouse, 70 Charles St. in Boston. July 1, 2, 5 and 7, curtain at 8 p.m. Tickets...
...Lover is at the BAG Theater, 367 Boylston St. in Boston. More Pinter-it seems fitting to end these listings as we began. Games people play, etc., curtain at 12:10 and 1:10 p.m., tickets...
More disturbing than these casting slipups are the film's basic structural weaknesses. Given that Fitzgerald left half his book unwritten, Pinter had two choices: stick to the original and add an ending, or else use the fragmentary notes Fitzgerald left about the rest of his novel to flesh out its contours. He opted for the first, and more obvious, route. The result is an abrupt ending which telescopes events designed to occur months or years apart--Kathleen's departure and Stahr's loss of power--into a period of a few filmed minutes. The effect is more sudden than...
...point is clear: Stahr has tried to impose the structure of movie romance on an unromantic reality. His mission has been that of the artist, to bring order out of the chaos of everyday life. Kazan and Pinter have similarly attempted to give cinematic order to Fitzgerald's muddled work. If their mission has not been a complete success, their failure, like Stahr's, has at least provided the pleasure of romantic illusion along...