Word: punkdom
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...fortissimo. But DiCaprio, knowing that he had a cuddly-toy quality (a face just shy of puberty, a smile that, in his first TV spot, was used to sell milk), barely rouged the rougher aspects of his characters. Toby is a decent kid, but his stabs at '50s punkdom rasp the nerves. Arnie is so aware of his doom that when he tells a new friend, "I could go at any time," it sounds like a come-on; yet his rampages drive his saintly brother (Johnny Depp) to violence. And Hank could be just a bad kid trapped...
...alien and slightly comical species whose rituals could be observed and mimicked. Other television children were passive; problems happened to them. Beaver actively courted trouble. He brought home live snakes, fell into a steaming billboard soup bowl, and cut his own hair so that he resembled a precursor of punkdom. Beaver was not streetwise, he was backyard-wise. He was good, but never goody-goody. In his mind, he was guilty until proved innocent...
...treat them with the same disdain he harbors for the big bad world. Clockwork Orange (like Dr. Strangelove,) shines, though, because it accommodates both Kubrick's cerebral and perverse artsiness and a free-lance format for Malcolm MacDowell. MacDowell requires no coaching or handholding here; he does for amoral punkdom what the Bowery Boys never could. The union of these two visionary hard-guys still proves chilling, and no amount of humane breath could melt this icicled look at tomorrow...
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