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Yet there is also about Deep End, as in Skolimowski's other work, a kind of viciousness directed toward his characters that prevents his films from being fully successful. Skolimowski is interested in effects, not causes. Mike's mania and Susan's sadism are largely unmotivated, so...
Best to keep things as they are. So Joe is left locked in his hospital room, banging out his pitiful message, a barely surviving symbol of human barbarism.
The story, like the star's acting, is so spare as to be virtually nonexistent: McQueen, injured in the race last year, returns to the competition to have another go at it. Since the film makers appear to have been interested in constructing a kind of fictional documentary, most...
Kaylor uses a kind of modified neorealist technique in which real people re-enact real situations. The results are often stunning. There is a pervasive tone of desperation in Derby, a sense of ironic, backhanded success about O'Connell and a pitiful aimlessness in Snell. As the documentary ends...
Nowhere in India is poverty more painfully evident than in Calcutta, a begrimed slut of a city where 200,000 people sleep in the streets at night and an unskilled worker earns a pitiful two rupees (260) a day. India's largest metropolis (pop. 7,900,000), the capital...