Word: subtexts
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This brings us to the movie's real business, which is to get Jack and Mona wrestling around together. Some blood is spilled on these occasions, so a sex- and-violence equivalency is established. There is also a bondage subtext that climaxes with Jack handcuffed to a bed and Mona in dominatrix black leather. Possibly writer Hilary Henkin sees Mona as a woman empowered by a brutal feminism. Possibly director Peter Medak, who specializes in Eurotrash artiness, sees the film as an upscale gloss on the gangster genre. Everyone else will observe that in structure and intent it is soft...
...decisions, made under radically different circumstances in radically different loci nonetheless point to a common historical subtext. The Sixties, a decade that bequeathed to us a legacy of open, festering wounds, officially ended last Saturday...
Alas, the competent production only underscores the root of Gilroy's problem: he is writing a no-longer-fashionable form, family melodrama, and is unable -- as indeed, he was unable even in Roses, for all its acute observation -- to invest middle-class conflict with enough poetry or subtext to have it mean more than the surface struggle. This kind of storytelling is now done by TV movies of the week...
...imaginative historian he replied, "There is little danger of long misleading here, for the champions of white folk are legion." Yet for all his insights, he was uneasy about his own identity. His writings are full of references to skin tone, the lighter the more becoming. "This subtext of proud hybridization is so prevalent," Lewis writes, "that the failure to notice it in the literature about him is as remarkable as the complex itself...
...imaginative historian he replied, "There is little danger of long misleading here, for the champions of white folk are legion." Yet for all his insights, he was uneasy about his own identity. His writings are full of references to skin tone, the lighter the more becoming. "This subtext of proud hybridization is so prevalent," Lewis writes, "that the failure to notice it in the literature about him is as remarkable as the complex itself...