Word: slow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Slow...
...moment of triumph by dousing their unsuspecting victim with a vat of blood--an especially cruel reminder of the scene in the showers. DePalma has obviously deemed this moment as the climax of the film; he drags the viewer through an agonizing five-minute sequence shot entirely in slow motion. Discordant violin strains accompany the doomed couple as they ascend to the stage. The glow of Carrie's face pains us all the more as the camera pans to the bucket precariously perched on the rigging directly above her blonde head. The tension-building devices are strictly conventional--reminiscent...
...word of Kim's defection leaked out, five leaders of the House called-for the first time-for a congressional probe of the scandal. Also, in a letter to President Ford, ranking members of the slow-moving House ethics committee asked that the Justice Department share its information with them...
...this week's conference, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will argue strongly for Increased standardization of the alliance's weapons. All present are certain to applaud him enthusiastically. But it is just as certain that any significant progress toward compatible weapons will be slow. The reason: each country prefers to keep its own scientists and production workers employed on technologically advanced programs. Even so, there have been some encouraging steps. Among them: a new rocket mine-laying system that will use a U.S. mine and a West German rocket, the U.S. purchase of the Belgian...
Nevertheless, the slow, deliberate pace of the movie leaves one gasping for oxygen. The whimsical intellectuality of the movie rapidly becomes cloying. The mystery's conclusion--where the last piece in the puzzle is fit into place--is a little too cleverly predictable. Through hypnosis, Freud finds that the secret of Holmes' personality and the reason for his cocaine addiction is explained by a childhood trauma. What else could one expect in a movie about Freud as precious as this one has become, but a reenactment of the Oedipal drama...