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...greatest threat to travel since bandits roamed the Old West. With astonishing impunity, the pirates of the skies are able to take over the swift vehicles that represent the most advanced developments of modern technological civilization. Less and less often are the culprits misfits and former mental patients seeking psychic as well as physical escape. Increasingly, they are dedicated, vicious political fanatics, who have discovered that one of the most vulnerable points of the developed world is a jetliner at an altitude...
Renamed Black World, it still loses money (Fuller refuses to say how much), but the losses are easily absorbed by the highly profitable Ebony and Jet. Besides, these days there is psychic profit to be gained from publishing an article emphasizing the black woman's seminal role in the black revolution (by Imamu Amiri Baraka, known to the white world as LeRoi Jones), or a comparison of Christian and Muslim attitudes toward slavery (the Christians come off second best), or an issue on African politics...
HUMILIATION, guilt, psychic imprisonment, schizophrenia, cosmic alienation, cruelty, suicide, cancer of the soul: these are not unlikely concerns for a new film by Ingmar Bergman. Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, and Hour of the Wolf have all developed these themes, groped for them, probed them, pried them loose from their existential moorings, and held them up for all to see against the ambiguous Scandinavian sky in their full mystery and complexity. The Passion of Anna, however, attempts no exploration into these. It presents them, parades them, but asks no questions, suggests no solutions...
...contradicted past or is omitted and simply brushed over by the narrator (as when and why and how Anna and Andreas start living together, for instance). Plot movement plays such a minimal role that the film seems almost a sequence of still photographs on the varieties of physical and psychic contortions: either monotonous guilt and anxiety or momentary flare-ups of violence...
Homicidal Eve. Things happen: Maria aborts another man's child, tries to find the vanished Nevada hamlet where she grew up, is a passive accomplice in a friend's suicide. Mostly, though, the book is a fever chart of psychic pain. Maria cries constantly. She drives the freeways maniacally. She alternately ignores friends or calls them in the middle of the night. All of what Robert Lowell called "the kingdom of the mad"-its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye-is here. Maria's private hell is constantly invaded by real-life demons of the show business world...