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...directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from its complex script (by the novelist Li Qiang), its imperfect characters and its emotional restraint in depicting the harshness of daily life in China...
Boas portrays Bearing’s intensity and anguish, stressing the hostile, hubristic, and threatened side of her personality, a choice that is in keeping with the script but also somewhat alienating for audiences. Her medical counterparts, Dr. Kelekian (John D. Boller) and Dr. Posner (Lenny M. Braman, HLS ’05) are brisk and impersonal. Posner is slightly warmer than Bearing yet less self-aware; unlike Bearing, has no idea that he should be more sympathetic, even as he describes his patient as “very unresponsive” on a clipboard before realizing that said patient...
...fact, the director notes in the program that he edited the script to tone down its misogyny and provide a more balanced satire of both sexes, as well as add to the humor...
However, the witty script and ironic denouement of the plot create a play that is about much more than just the entertaining appearance of drugs, guns, and a stripping secretary...
After the meet, Lawler would not go to Athens, but he returned to Harvard ready to nurture the script that would soon become “Genie...