Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into sets of contradictions; their stance toward reality is ironic. But the means and indeed than creating (or reconstructing) events, attempts to situate himself in the midst of them. Though he does not relinquish his personal reference point, his personal reference point, his subject is an object trouve, a "real-life drama," and the structure of his film is determined by the nature of that subject in action. From this aesthetic of minimum interference are derived the techniques of direct cinema, the result of ways in which these film-makers are forced to work (since they cannot structure the situations...
...some direction. Often he'd gotten up and left at the first opportunity. It was easier to withdraw, to live in a fantasy world. Other people, other tings disrupt that self constituted equilibrium and bring to mind the memory of an inability to cope with the trials of the real world. The reclusive life of a mental hospital is a respite from the anguishing pace of "the outside," but as time passes, unless patients maintain some sort of contact with the outside, it becomes all they know--a world of smoke and sleep in which I couldn't help...
...hero and villain of the piece sit down beside a series of television screens and begin to play and odd sort of futuristic chess. The game's pieces represent characters in the village of the film. When two of them meet on the chess board, they meet in real life and are observed on the television screens. The villain has at his disposal a trap which, when it hovers over any one of the characters, permits him to play havoc with that character's emotions...
...lately, finally rose the other night. As late summer moons often do, it hung heavy and red just above the horizon. But, since the days of the good, impressionistic sentence are over, it is difficult to assign any particular emotion to the event. For, in a very real sense, the particular sphere in question has become just another suburb, and like Wellesley or Westchester or Chevy Chase, it is there, separated from us only by the difficulties of transportation...
...most telling indictments, though, are sure to come in future years. It is dubious that Americans will be able to maintain any real interest in the space program. That is not to say of course that they won't stop pumping money into it, while the more earthbound among us continue to complain that the money should be spent elsewhere. (They forget the quite fundamental point that, like smalltown high schools that spend all the money they pick up during booster drives on athletic facilities instead of curriculum reform, America will always turn to diversionary money drains rather than concentrate...