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...inviting perceptions like "ball-buster" or bitch. O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark had to be remanded to the make-over salon where she was recoiffed and taught to make tender references to her offspring in public. Hillary Clinton, perhaps more than any woman in public life, has been subject to relentless review by the gender police. Even when she stood steadfastly by her man during the Gennifer Flowers incident, she was savaged for doing so with insufficient humility and possibly dissing Tammy Wynette...
Coordinating Beethoven's music with the story poses another problem. The relentless melodrama of the film contrasts with the composer's work to an unintentionally comic effect. And of course, we hear plenty of the Fifth Symphony at crucial intervals...
...wherever you sit at the national smorgasbord, whether you dine off Styrofoam or Limoges, there's the same relentless struggle against the encroachments of billowing flesh. Affluent people have better weapons, of ) course -- StairMasters and NordicTracks -- but even they are sometimes forced to fly first class just to find seats that will accommodate their thighs...
...dialectic is disorienting. On the one hand, the present time seems dramatically immoral, one of the sleazier, stupider, more violent periods of American history. On the other hand -- or perhaps merely as a result -- Americans have become the world's most relentless moralizers, engaged in moral improvisation and soul-searching with a focused anguish not seen since the days of St. Anthony and the desert monks...
With the movie, the subtitles, the singing and the music -- expertly conducted by Michael Riesman -- there is a lot of information for the listener to absorb all at once, but after a few minutes everything comes together seamlessly. The restless, relentless energy of the score -- tempered, for the first time in Glass's career, by some fetching love music -- pulls one into the film in a way that mere background music never could. By the final shot, of a sublime Beauty and her transformed Beast borne magically aloft and soaring through the clouds, the audience is as enchanted...