Word: surreal
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...center, the crossroads of neo-colonialist contradictions, and in Terra em Transe (Land in Angitish) he approaches them dialectically, attempting a mediation between Brazil's political realities and the poetic violence, the spiritual energies of an oppressed people. There are both concrete and at the same time surreal situations, like all the other sounds and images of the film. The hero Paulo Martins embodies all of the central dialectical elements in fierce confrontation, in his role as poet and actualizer of the people's collective unconscious and as collaborator with two different (and conflicting) populist politicians in the imaginary country...
...bits of the war, racism and pollution do creep into Alex , but in a manner so fraudulent that the words are reduced to mere shells. Mazurky shows us Alex fantasizing a guerrilla attack on Hollywood Boulevard during the filming of a Doris Day musical. And Mazurky shows us a surreal vision of a polluted LA airport as well as a tribe of dancing blacks descending upon a colony of Jewish intellectuals. But, never, never, is he able to give either Alex or his film any deeper method of understanding the phenomenon they want so badly to discuss...
Tristana. Luis Bunuel's tale is about a young woman (Catherine Deneuve) who falls prey to the affections of her much older guardian (Fernado Rey). Comic (if not to the extent of The Milky Way ) and darkly surreal, this film presents Bunuel's unique vision of the shifting planes of morality...
JOHN BOORMAN'S Leo the Last also begins interestingly, if not well, with an overlaid rock song alluding to the action and some surreal flip-flopping between polite conversation and snide establishing narration, designed simultaneously to let the audience know the situation and to let it know it's being told deliberately. This low-level reflexiveness doesn't succeed in really challenging the naturalistic tradition...
...care and leisure show. Gallows Pole shows the clear influence of San Francisco's Creedence Clearwater Revival, and its monosyllabic, root-heavy style is powerful. One of the two best tracks is That's The Way, whose rich harmonies are a perfect match for the somewhat surreal lyrics about adolescent alienation. The other is Since I've Been Loving You, a superb slow-blues song that has more togetherness than a revival meeting...