Word: soundless
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...memorable image of a blood-soaked Carrie glaring upon the suddenly soundless ballroom marks the point where DePalma abandons all self-restraint. Gimmick piles upon gimmick as Carrie wreaks her vengeance; screens split, reddish tones suffuse the lens, a single shot multiplies into a revolving wheel of faces both shocked and gleeful. The film now develops into a full-scale assault upon the senses that ultimately gluts the viewer's mind with technique...
...long, desert road. Cars are few and I trace their rear lights back to nothing in the sideview mirror, where they are but a pin-pricked rupture in the great sack of night, a bleeding stream of fleeting electricity. I push the van to 95 in the soundless onrush of blackness, while the flourescent stakes by the roadside teeter rearward and empty lights hang nowhere out in the desert, some mystery of some nuclear facility...
...lonely arrival. One probably will never know if Richard Nixon expected such a soundless, emotionless affair. After the storm of publicity in the U.S., all the smells and sounds of power that have gone with the presidency to produce this event, the few minutes in the weak sun of a clear China morning are - well, perhaps they are pure Chinese. Think of the great entries of other journeys. Cheering, shouting, jumping, massed hundreds of thousands. Nixon in Mexico, in Rumania, in Yugoslavia. Great sounds swelled then over the President and he glowed, measuring the effects. But the most momentous journey...
...race across the keyboard like a riptide. Suddenly his face turns soulful, as if he were attempting to hang each note in the air like a snowflake. With a brisk, dryly ironic flourish he brings the composition to its close. But through the entire piece, the instrument has been soundless...
...that a carousing father might lose all track of a child and who, coming home, says to the mother, "I lost the child-completely lost him. God knows who's got hold of him." After giving an animal cry, Madden opens his mouth again in a terrible soundless scream and sags lifelessly, like a crucified soul. That is an epiphany. For in one blinding instant, we see the great play that for the rest of the evening is not seen onstage...