Word: surrealizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vientiane, during peacetime, would have little if anything to catch the eye. However, due to the huge American presence, Vientiane today smacks of the surreal. On the street passing the Morning Bazaar amid the traditionally sparse traffice of taxis, pedal-rickshaws, and jeeps, today there are American station wagons, driven by American housewives of USAID employees, often with American children jumping around on the back seat. Driving down the main Boulevard paved with U.S. concrete, in their air-conditioned Ford Country Squire, they seem oblivious to the heat, dust, and squalor surrounding them...
STICKS AND BONES. A blind veteran, home from Viet Nam, is as welcome as a hand grenade to his sad-funny, surreal-absurdist family...
...exaggeratedly bloody to the same degree that Hollywood traditionally exaggerates death's neatness. Blood spurts geyser-like out of bullet wounds, stabbed men vomit blood, pools of blood cover the ground. The deaths are shown lustily--the camera voyeuristically gravitates toward the worst of the blood. The deaths are surreal, lacking in lesson or meaning, worse than life...
...rider from nowhere becomes the avenger. This is the super spaghetti Western--the most surreal version of an already surreal type. Even the music sounds as if Sergio Leone had picked...
...double death. Sightless he suddenly sees the members of his family for what they are, characters out of an adman's superdreams, puppets dangling from dentifrices, automobiles and cellophane, living on packaged illusions and self-destructive myths. They are hypocrites and moles. They are also a sad-funny, surreal-absurdist clan, whose like has not been seen on the U.S. stage since Edward Albee's The American Dream. The father is named Ozzie and the mother Harriet, which is a clue to the lowest level of the playwright's satiric intent and achievement...