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Talented acting by the entire cast gives depth and nuances to the one-note characters. Especially commendable is Richard Nash, who plays both Senator Hum and scientist Harry Stranger. The plot is full of odd digressions, but its basic theme is Stranger's efforts to finance his time machine and use it for the benefit of humanity...
...Stranger of approached by numerous corrupt types who want to use their tainted money to buy his idea. Among them is reporter Jim Jettison (Director Patrick Tan), who seeks to sell papers by uncovering "sex secrets of the past--where did the Venus de Milo have her hands before she lost her arms...
...Stranger and his friends turn away these purveyors of tainted loot and repeat their determination to seek government support. Yet given the corrupt character of Senator Hum, one wonders why money conferred by him is any less rotten. This question is never addressed...
...animals in some way," Burton observes, and he doesn't mean it pejoratively. "One message of the film," says Waters, "is that the warped tensions underlying every personality should be embraced, not ignored." Unleash the beast. Otherwise you will be schizo, a stranger to others and to your other self...
...Bill and I have always been able to do that. I know you people are amazed at this, but we would always put away anything unpleasant." In fact, his mother does not remember her own deposition given in the same divorce proceedings. The name of her lawyer is a stranger's name now. She doesn't even remember the timing or circumstances of her remarriage to Roger Clinton -- a remarkable suppression of the past. In fact, when a cousin suggested she did not pursue the divorce to its conclusion, she could not deny that with certainty -- and neither could...