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...proponent of the new concentration said that the meaning of the major "was beyond language," Hirsch said in an interview. If this is true, Hirsch said, "We are in the realm of faith...
...restaging by David Wheeler, based on last year's production directed by Michael Bloom, takes maximum advantage of the versatile A.R.T. company. The Day Room is a play within a play within a play, a whirlwind voyage into the realm of metaphysical therapy in which the cast must shed their identities more rapidly than a den of snakes. And the cast, without exception, demonstrates chameleonlike skill...
Defense of the Realm follows Nick Mullen (Gabriel Byrne), an ambitious young reporter on a story that could make his career. A series of anonymous tips leads Mullen into a spate of stories linking Dennis Markham (Ian Bannen), a prominent Labor Party member of Parliament, to a communist spy ring. The stories--racy Fleet Street stuff filled with call girls and foreign agents--first destroy Markham's marriage, then his career as he is forced to resign his office...
...left equally in the dark about Markham and Bayliss, by far the movie's most interesting characters. Ultimately, the picture disappoints not because it is bad or stupid, but because it is dull. With such a timely and important topic, it's unfortunate that Defense of the Realm is plagued by the humorless heavy-handedness that so often mars movies dealing with contemporary politics...
Defense of the Realm has its moments--exciting scenes of newspaper presses and ceremonies in the linotype room, stuffy British parlors and subtle jabs at clumsy American diction--but the picture plays like a second-rate TV drama. Wrapped up in the perceived all-importance of his plot, director David Drury neglects such film elementals as character development and cinematography. Although the picture revolves around Mullen, we learn next to nothing about him as a person, save what can be gleaned from his decor (most notably graced by classical records and a synthesizer...