Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says a cleric led a plot to bomb and kill...
This is seriously rancid noir, with an archetypal plot: a loser on the run, hooking up with strangers who are very good at being bad. In Mexico, Alex (Kevin Anderson), a fugitive sailor, falls in with Missy (Rosanna Arquette) and Mills (John Lithgow), a married couple linked like felons on a chain gang. There is a slim mystery, with the federales in pursuit, but this is at heart a study of the cages three people have made of their lives. Mills says what they all feel: "I just can't get out of this goddam life...
None of this is presented melodramatically. Bad Behaviour was improvised, under Les Blair's direction, by its actors. They were obviously looking for characters to play, not a plot to follow or pre-existent outlines to fill in. For a change, this dangerous technique works: the film's best quality is its lifelike drift. Like real people, and unlike movie people, these figures will do anything to escape confrontation with their problems, with themselves...
...Salem, who was simultaneously Sheik Abdel Rahman's bodyguard and an FBI informer. Salem is not named in the indictment but is obviously the "person known to the grand jury" who is referred to time and again. He allegedly was recruited into the conspiracy in November 1991, and helped plot bombings...
...case may stand or fall on Salem's credibility to a trial jury. Defense Attorney William Kunstler accuses him of concocting the whole plot and entrapping the other defendants in it as a money-making venture -- there are reports that the FBI is paying him as much...