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Conversely, the freaks in the film come across as smack-shooting nymphomaniacs, who, in their spare time, self phony dope to innocent high-school girls, steal people's wallets and frequent macrobiotic restaurants. In its willingness to defame all comers, Joe is marvelously democratic. While, in the end, it is the freaks who get murdered, the film's sympathies remain ambiguous. The verdict on the killers seems to be an equivocal "justifiable homicide...
People hang out of windows waving all along the line of march. A group of about 25 male hecklers-those shifty-eyed little men who stand on streetcorners and smack their lips-follow along chanting "Be a woman, be a mother." Their hand-lettered signs read "We Love Women: In the Kitchen and in the Bed" and "End Toilet Facility Discrimination Now." Be a mother. "Why?" I shout at one and he shrugs. "Because I need a mother...
...time is repeated and virulent attacks on youth, who are portrayed throughout as spoiled, selfish, loveless and unloving brats. There are a couple of cursory attempts to explain young people's interest in drugs (Mommy takes lots of pills, Daddy is a booze hound), but they all smack of smug rationalization. In the midst of all these dismal goings on are several fine actors yelling to get out. Wallach is brutal and forceful as the father; Hal Holbrook, playing a next-door neighbor, is remarkably moving against overwhelming odds; and the young actors-Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Don Scardino...
...finally a makeshift concert by nondescript local bands, with amplifiers powered by two ice-cream trucks. The most distinctive note was the brash hawking of drugs. "Good black hashish for $3.50!" shouted one youth. Countered a bearded pusher: "Buy one tab of acid and get a free tab of smack!" Kids on bad trips were treated by volunteer physicians, and were urged over a makeshift public-address system to "bring a few joints for the doctors." As the week progressed, drug abuse became a serious problem. Hundreds of youngsters suffered ill effects...
LOOK OUT your window and you will see some of them. You probably won't be able to tell which have guns, or which have speed or smack habits. It doesn't matter really, they all look the same. Whites used to say that about black people. They also used to say that black people smelled bad. So if you choose to look at it in a certain way, what's happened to Cambridge is that it has become a white-longhaired ghetto. Look out the window. It's all happening, right...