Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lebanon and Greek-Turkish clashes on Cyprus. Their bitterest enemies are a group of restless thugs between the ages of 16 and 25 known as Raggare (for their habit of cruising around-ragga in Swedish-in big old American cars). According to one Raggare, the Assyrians are "blackskulls" who deserve to be attacked because "they live off welfare. They sleep until 2. They chase after our Swedish girls." Along with the gypsies and other immigrant groups, they pose the threat of social change, something that neither the hard-drinking, working-class Raggare nor many law-abiding Swedes are willing...
York delays the film's slide into silliness with a surprisingly moving scene in which he clings to his humanity despite Moreau's attempt to use him as an experiment in reverse evolution. But the beast-people are getting restless, and a B-movie Apocalypse is in the wind. Clearly there are some cosmic ironies about God, nature, man and beast lurk ing in all this. But it is probably best to follow the film's example and not think about them...
...high for a country that four years ago was importing labor and still has 1.9 million foreign workers. Federal government economists have scaled down Schmidt's confident prediction of a 5% G.N.P. growth rate for 1977 to 4.5% at best. Partly because of joblessness, West German youth are restless. Predicts one top-level federal Education Ministry official: "I think we can expect trouble in the fall when the schools reopen...
Tires hum along the interstate while an afternoon sun reddens behind exhaust fumes. The natives in the back seat are restless. Bored with counting stalled vehicles and CB radio antennas, they have discussed Star Wars to a tatter. The day's second rendition of 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall has petered out at bottle No. 37. Now sullen silence prevails, punctuated only by stage whispers to the effect that some parents feed their kids, for cryinoutloud. Egg McMuffined for breakfast, Burger Kinged at lunch and Stuckeyed in between, the little ones are hungry again. For that matter...
Home Free's plot is aimless. The lack of focus--if intentional--may be an attempt to symbolize Gene's restless drifting, but again, it could have been handled more deftly. Wakefield is continuously showing him moving, from one university to another, one lover to the next, one town to the next. Everything moves but the plot--which is relentlessly stagnant. Everybody has a threshold of boredom. Home Free surpasses even the highest tolerance for sluggishness in fiction...