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...Spider's Stratagem, for example, has a serene mystery to it -- perhaps emanating from the film's roots in a Borges story -- that will not allow deep penetration into the viewers' lives. The film explores psychological questions, but does so mainly to raise broader questions about heroism and martyrdom and the impact of truth on history...
CENTRAL II. Spider's Stratagem 6:15, 10, Before the Revolution 8, wknd...
...heroine of the piece, you'll remember, is Charlotte A. Cavatica, the helpful spider who saw Wilbur the pig through some pretty rough times. She saved his life and also taught him to understand and accept death. It is a very important lesson, one I was particularly glad to see the movie people had not altered for the sake of a happy ending. Physically, however, my friends and I look different from Mr. Garth Williams' definitive illustrations in the book. We have been made cuter, which I suppose is nothing to complain about...
HARVARD SQUARE CINEMA. Spider's Stratagem 2:50, 6:25, 9:55. Before the Revolution...
...that the village is cut off from the rest of the world, the tracks leading out overgrown with grass. It enters into no real moral grapplings; even its politics are just subordinate to tricks in the plot. More didactic concerns are left to Bertolucci's other films. What The Spider's Strategem demonstrates above all is his stunning technical finesse...