Word: stalkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cohen's direction. He foreshadows his hero's early death by having his dreams haunted by fate (giddily yet scarily represented as a warrior figure out of China's ancient past) and proposes that Lee ran so hard, so fast in an attempt to outdistance this grim stalker. It's an incautious conceit, and some of its effectiveness may derive from the recent, equally sudden, equally premature death of Lee's son Brandon on a film set. One begins to think that perhaps the family actually is haunted. But even in happier circumstances, one could succumb to the charged...
Most important, Allen has inserted his own screen character, the wise schlemiel, into the proceedings, this time as a clerk recruited by a variety of vigilante bands, each with a theory about how to catch the night stalker. The clerk supplies what expressionism always lacked -- jokes. And his increasingly tense situation provides a sharp commentary on the fecklessness of ideological debate when a crisis is at hand...