Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silence of this city is overwhelming. It is the dominant note of Richard Nixon's first day in Peking. The huge, roaring, dazzling spectacle of the presidency that has mesmerized whole nations is simply swallowed up in China. It is muffled, shrouded, forced into surrealism. Peking is silent at dawn. It is hushed at noon. If there is a rush hour, it is imperceptible. Reporters huddle in the cold on the steps of the Great Hall waiting-one hour, two hours. What is wrong? Nixon ill? Trouble in Viet Nam? This sort of void in awareness does not happen...
...cold air again, the group of Americans grows silent, passes around the hulking figure of Chairman Mao and files onto the buses. Will it all stick in those young minds, particularly if some of them later do go out into the real world? There is no answer. There is doubt, but then there is also the fresh memory of a high school purring like a calculator of some 3,000 parts. Mao has things going...
First Bok locked the door of Massachusetts Hall on the black students and community people. Then, when the demonstrators retired to University Hall, threatening militant action, Bok agreed to meet that evening with their representatives. Although he remained silent at the meeting on any of the substantive issues, he issued a statement later that night which said: "There is no question in my mind that Portugal has inflicted grave wrongs on Black people in Angola and Mozambique...
...SECOND miscalculation is subtler but perhaps more revealing. Throughout the film Polanski has recourse to a separation of sound and image as stylistic device. Again and again, Macbeth is present on screen, silent and pensive, while the appropriate speech is read over the sound track. The result is the creation of a melancholy and self-conscious character, and with this one peculiar mannerism, Polanski manages to turn his Macbeth from unthinking warrior into a brooding, almost Hamlet-like figure...
Kadar works with the absence of language to build an unbearable tension that his hero cannot dissipate. The girl, Anada, remains almost totally silent in Yanos' presence. She neither denies nor confirms the flirtation that his jealousy sees in all her movements near other men. When he discovers her alone, bathing nude, her actions stay neutral: she does not speak; her eyes reveal neither contempt nor attraction; she leaves the water and walks past him. Yanos is suspended in time, his sexual longing keeping him from turning away, his morality from advancing towards her. He cannot speak, for Anada...