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...known film The Tin Drum. Where the bizarre fantasy of The Tin Drum terrifies and disgusts, the efficient realism of Circle of Deceit fades into ennui. Both movies bear Schlondorff's unmistakable brass-knuckle touch in the scenes of gore and brutishly cold sex, which he portrays with neither relish nor repugnance. His films are not for the weak of stomach. Nor for the warm of heart...
...finally .. . but it would not be proper to reveal Pryor's punch line to the grim joke life played on him; and there are words best left to R-rated movies. Pryor uses them all, relentlessly and with relish. For him-as for Lenny Bruce, the pioneer of Savonarola satire, and Pryor's only true antecedent-profanity serves to give both a salty rhythm to his sentences and a Joy Buzzer shock to his more refeened listeners. It remains for his fearless comic acuity to tell him precisely how much gutter imagery his audience can take...
...trying to bring about a social revolution. Their speeches are not just background color thrown it to give characters an excuse for passionate devotion or to propel a romantic plot Rather they are the lyrical heart of the script, bringing intensity and believability to characters who otherwise conform with relish to the movement's righteous stereotypes...
...relish being sandwiched...
...Never quite convinced of his right to exist, he wore himself down with ceaseless self-dissection, suffocated in an office job the talent he knew he had, and often tried to sabotage his most precious relationships. Although he never formally committed suicide-a failure he gloated over with particular relish--he quite possibly had a hand in bringing on the tuberculosis that killed him at age 41. As for the writings that were not published during his lifetime--two unfinished novels, a large number of stories, diaries and letters--he asked his close friend and first biographer, Max Brod...