Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that state legislators can't pass effective social legislation as quickly as they pass laws to curb college and university rebels. I suppose it's cheaper and simpler to hire extra police to enforce the new laws than it is to reform the colleges and universities and make them more acceptable to the students. Unfortunately, the moderate student seeking legitimate change will suffer, and those of the extreme right and the New Left will delight in the continuing erosion of genuine democracy in this nation...
...issue has divided husband and wife, inspired countless heated arguments at social occasions and engendered public controversy from coast to coast. As if on a holy crusade, the strikers stage marches that resemble religious pilgrimages, bearing aloft their own stylized black Aztec eagle on a red field along with images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of Mexicans...
...EARLY scene between the principle characters, a married couple, establishes their social and moral passivity. As the woman tells her husband about a sex orgy (also involving money and cars) in which she recently took part, the camera tracks very slowly from one to the other. They sit, scarcely moving, in silhouette--two-dimensional figures whose only reaction to the story (husband's) is to say, "get me excited...
...bank) is the cause of the delay, they simply accelerate past; the camera's move into high-angle, giving the shot of bloody bodies and smashed cars a mood of tragedy, is ignored by the motorists who drive into the distance. The scene is a brilliant metaphor for bourgeois social relations--the stopped motorists, though unwilling to take any action (collective or individual) about their total situation, react violently when any single person tries to get ahead of them. The central fact is their enmity to each other, realized both in their actions and in the blaring horns that gives...
This relation of the characters to their social and physical situation persists. Their amoral reactions to setting and other people causes increasingly violent outbreaks. An early sequence beginning with one car scraping another ends in a man shooting at the couple. A girl dressed as Emily Bronte, counselling the couple to pay attention to natural forms (pebbles, grass) to find their meanings, is set afire after she declares "End the daily murder! Cover flowers with flames!" In this sequence--as in sequences where they ignore a figure reading Rousseau, and interrupt a beautiful rendition of a Mozart sonata--the characters...