Word: soundtrack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's repeated associations of sex with violence and both with liberation raise more serious questions. Rourke and Tracey break into their high school at night and trash the front office while Kim Wilde's "Kids in America" plays on the soundtrack. Perhaps the scene tries to terrify adults by showing typical teenagers in a Lord of the Flies atmosphere--or perhaps the filmmakers are advancing a suggestion for high school students everywhere? It's hard to tell. Then Rourke and Tracey commence lovemaking by hitting each other with sponge bats; the message isn't even subliminal...
...feel of the age the grime of street life and bread lines, the sense of urgency haunting politicos on all sides of the spectrum, and the pervasive paranoia of a society in lethal flux. Wajda brings forth all the weapons in this director's arsenal, from a droning soundtrack to claustrophobic camerawork, to brilliant contrast between dark night and the torches of the security police. He succeeds masterfully in conveying the dreadful anxiety of living in a totalitarian regime. For if the government of the Terror lacks the 20th century's technological tools of surveillance, it nevertheless aspired...
DIRECTOR WRITER John Sayles seems to like his movies heavy on soundtrack, light on plot. In his recent Lianna, a young mother of two decides for no apparent reason to take up homosexuality while a Joni Mitchellesque voice sings about love and other relevant topics in the background. Lianna does a lot of mournful staring out of windows, the crooning puts us--sort of--in the mood, and nothing much else happens...
...bright spots in this otherwise dismal production is ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith's snappy, techno-country-Western soundtrack. But Nesmith also co-wrote the juvenile screenplay, and it seems a clear Indication as in where his talents...
...embark upon an uncomfortable honeymoon train rides to visit their parents back East. The audience is served up a platter of cute little vignettes of the trip (most of which are featured in the previews). This fluff is washed down by the soundtrack's particularly insipid cocktail of tinkling piano chords that bob around like ice cubes in a wash of syrupy strings...