Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world of Eddie Coyle and "friends" is a passionless and dead-end one, as stony faced as the sentencing they suffer. The stolen goods they traffic and the robberies they commit, help support their families, with perhaps even enough leftover for that "trip to Florida." But they never make enough to quit the game. Jail, finally, is the only real stake. The game breeds a grim desperation. "Life's hard, but it's harder when you're stupid," says gunseller Jackie Brown. Not being stupid means making the best deal...
...seen piloting sleek craft off Long Island, putting proudly into port in Brooklyn and The Bronx. Though they favor yachts, one captains a converted Coast Guard cutter, while another is suspected of navigating a lobster boat-long after the lobster season has ended. Not every mobster can afford to "suffer a sea change into something rich and strange." The less affluent Gallo brothers, still recovering from the decimation of their gang, have to be content to splash around in a swimming pool they have built in Brooklyn, where there is always the danger of running into a water...
...captured agents. Even though Norway has very friendly relations with Israel, it may be inclined to punish the agents severely in order to deter further terrorism. The murder was obviously an error, but that is small solace for Ahmed Bouchiki and other innocents who are bound to suffer in the worldwide underground warfare between the Israelis and the Arabs...
...even revolutionary-in their relationship to the things and the people who tormented them. Chaplin was insouciantly defiant when pressed, Keaton manically inventive. Both were also incurable romantics. They were people of dimension, people with plans and aspirations and a wide range of feeling. One could identify with them, suffer and exult with them...
...this count, Chase's feature is worth the price of admission. It is not aesthetic. It is even clumsy. The soundtrack and the visuals are poorly matched. The IRA anthems and ballads occur with no regard for the picture on the screen, so that both lyrics and images suffer from thoughtless juxtaposition. There is considerable unnecessary footage--87 minutes could well have been reduced...