Word: psychic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Norway, for example, prohibits the use of women in manipulative ways as sex objects in advertising. My impression is that this law works, and works well. Those ornamental lovelies who fill American ads, the psychic shills for everything from cigarettes to Sports Illustrated, have little counterpart there...
...their emotional lives. Instead, against these blank white backgrounds he has projected the shapes of what appears to be his < own dejection, finding in each glum expression the corollary of a private somber mood. Yet the exhibition is also more than a magic-lantern display of the photographer's psychic woes. Looking through the lens of his temperament, he has sighted one more mythical West, this time a place to represent all places where hopes are checked by reality. His worn-out laborers and depleted old people are the pioneers of our own dilemmas. At some point, everyone settles...
Visions of a seance in which a slightly deranged medium sways in a delirious trance and speaks in the varied voices of the dead immediately come to mind. Return, a new film written and directed by Andrew Silver, approaches this psychic realm from a radically different standpoint. It presupposes the possibility of reincarnation, dwelling on the complex effects of such a psychic return for the characters involved...
...grandfather has come back to reveal the sordid truth about her parents' past. Diana, in her attempt to unravel this cryptic mesage, somewhat predictably falls in love with Day. Her mission, then, becomes not only to pacify her grandfather's restless spirit, but to liberate Day from this psychic bond which prevents him from forming any more conventional ones with Diana...
...with an unconscious honesty that makes the character instantly likeable and believeable. Playing Day as something of an innocent, Walcutt's childlike spontaneity endears him to the audience, overriding the distance automatically created by the disturbing facts of his character's possession. Walcutt never overdramatizes Day's bizarre psychic circumstances, relying instead on determined, consistent understatement. Although Walcutt is cast as the film's romantic hero, he manages to avoid this restrictive stereotype, devoid as he is of the plastic good looks required of the typical male lead. Rather, he combines in his own off-beat demeanor elements of both...