Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cassavetes has previously been criticized for indulging himself by allowing his scenes to run on too long and too aimlessly. Husbands' scenes go on even longer than those in Faces, but they maintain a perfect emotional pitch. Cassavetes lets Gus, Archie and Harry reveal themselves at their own rate. They become by turns boyish, noisy, sloppy, silly, sentimental and obnoxious, but never less than human...
...NUMBER of incidents of this nature in this book suggests that either witnessing or participating in these atrocities is part of every American combat soldier's experience in Vietnam. The interviews reveal that Americans soldiers have...
...their wives it is often like a cruise ship: the rules of behavior seem formidably strange at first, as do one's fellow passengers, and one feels a yearning for the familiar comforts of home. But after a while the routine becomes second nature, and certain attractions begin to reveal themselves: the esprit de corps of participating in a common adventure, a feeling of liberation from home-town pressures and personalities, the stimulus of new people with disparate backgrounds and ideas...
...commercial opens, hubby asks the little woman (Dancer Ann Miller disguised as a hausfrau) what is cooking. "The Great American Soup!" she says, ripping off her apron. The kitchen walls part to reveal a set out of a 1935 Busby Berkeley musical, including 20 frizzy-haired chorines clattering away on raised silver platforms and 4,000 jets of water colored red, white and blue. The Billy May orchestra pounds out the production number, which has such lyrics as "The soupy road to romance" and "Let's face the chicken gumbo and dance." Miller, singing and tatta-tatting down...
...irresponsible privilege and political obliviousness in a sequence intercut with familiar images of Kjell's mother doing washing for the rich. Widerbeg demonstrates the duplicity of his own horizontal aestheticism in a context of social inequalities a hierarchy of wealth and power. The opening shots of the film reveal the beauty of life rooted in material realities, ironing, shaving, dressing, playing, the aesthetics of routine. A working-class family preparing for the day. Until certain tensions begin to appear in faces, the intrusion of a political reality: they are on strike. The spectre of vertical economic structures lurks beneath...