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Anna's picture of life on Haugsetvolden is colorful between grim scenes of starvation and cold. Eccentric rustics, of a sort peculiar to rural isolation, make up her little family. Old-Johan, the farmer's half-brother, almost dies of a snake bite that he is too reclusive to mention. A simple woman named Jenny destroys Anna's cabin when she takes seriously someone's joke that "it ought to be burned down...
...faith healer in a Marilyn Monroe worshipping ceremony peopled by a company of badly crippled and visibly retarded hopefuls who Russell must have gone to some trouble to procure for the cinematic effect. Later Tommy is left to devices of the Acid Queen (Tina Turner is a marvelous caricature, snake-tongued and screeching--the best thing in the show), and a 'psychedelic' scene full of neons and visual tricks that experimental filmmakers have been using for years. Soon we watch Tommy tortured by one sadistic relative, then abused by another sex-crazed next of kin. Some of these scenes...
...honor to help Kilmer. The Yakuza is much concerned with these matters of duty. The obligation is a burden, but the brother takes a grave pride in helping his sister's old lover. What is canny in this movie is the way these various obligations are made to snake around each other, then abruptly thrust inward to threaten and destroy. Unfortunately, these serpentine strands also cause a great deal of confusion and hob ble the movie just when it should be moving briskly along...
Sylvie and Bruce eventually dropped away from active membership, which included drug rites, snake worship and eating crackling wafers of mummy flesh...
...about crawfish racing in Louisiana, displaced Hillbillies in Detroit, a Baptist convention in Georgia, the Elks Club in Nebraska, mushball in Sheboygan, Wisconsin: these are the "human interest" features, still looking a mite incongruous beside the troubled headlines, that bob up on the front of the second section, or snake around the Gimbel's and Macy's advertisements. These are the stories that, according to the book's Preface, "do not break," but "trickle, seep, and ooze. The Times is covering the ooze...