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...dignify it to a degree it doesn't deserve. It's hard to imagine anyone enjoying this journey through decay, or to understand how the experience of watching an intellectualized version of Faces of Death could lead to anything but nausea. A Zed and Two Noughts is an angry, pointless film nothing more than stupidity masquerading as profundity...
...most of all, I was disturbed by the value judgment one of the interviewees cast on the student protesters. According to him, student demonstrations are pointless because "freedom is for qualified people only," and they mostly arise from ignorance and naivete. These are value judgments and like all other value judgments it is difficult to offer logical counterarguments. But I have to say this statement deeply offends my civic sense of morality...
...sees the demonstrations as pointless because, he says, he does not think there is a need for greater political freedom. "In China you have the right to think, but you cannot do everything. Just like in the States there are many people who worship Hitler, but they are not allowed to practice Nazism...
...competent but meaningless. Although Gabiel's scratchy voice is perfectly at home singing funky love songs like "That Voice Again" and "In Your Eyes," his conception of what makes a good love song remains hazy and mired in cliches. These two tunes feature overly generalized and hence pointless lyrics set to often generic synth harmonies. Although Gabriel is capable of invading the mind of a political assassin, as he proved on the earlier "Family Snapshot," he seems absolutely at a loss to express anything interesting in his more amorous pieces. And his attempt at satirizing the pursuit of success...
...Hague, Britain found a willing ally in West Germany, another of South Africa's leading commercial partners. Bonn consistently opposes trade sanctions as counterproductive and, in any event, considers them pointless in this case without the cooperation of the U.S. and Japan. Several of the smaller powers, including the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland, called in vain for the E.C. to take stronger action...