Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this surreal saturation of dollars were not a generous enough compliment to the American coin, here comes another one: the American bill is being illegally reproduced around the globe and in greater quantity than ever. "The U.S. currency," says Secret Service spokesman Carl Meyer, "is not only the most desirable currency in the world. It is also the most easily counterfeited." Of the $350 billion worth of U.S currency in circulation today, anywhere from 50% to 65% is held overseas. In 1980, estimates University of Wisconsin economist Edgar Feige, just 30% of all dollars could be found offshore...
...Muffley, a sort of Mister Rogers with backbone, who is determined to keep Russian Premier Kissoff from executing a retaliatory strike. Surrounded by hard-core war-mongering generals, his touchy-feely Red Line conversation with Kissoff, the missile attack blinking ever closer on the Big Board behind him, seems surreal. "Yes, I am sorry," he soothes, "I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are, Dmitri...
...word, the cinematography is different--not innovative--but different. Most of the scenes are unusually dark. The drama seems to unfold in an atmosphere of a funeral, the event that started the film. This worked well in the scenes in the new office building, producing a surreal, avant-garde effect. The acting, mise en scene, and the characters of "The Secret Rapture" seemed to lend themselves better to theater than to film. This is probably because Mr. Davies' prior experience was with the stage...
Throughout the movie, Stone cannot resist indulging his overt, slap-in-the-face style. Has this man never heard of subtlety? One of the many instances occurs when Mickey comes to save Mallory. The entire episode is packaged as a sitcom fully equipped with fake, plastic decor creating a surreal aura reinforced by track laughter. This seems acceptable enough. Yet Stone takes what could have been a clever idea and pretentiously exploits it beyond meaning. The modern-day knight arrives enrobed in his bloody butcher shop apron carrying 50 pounds of raw meat. His scantily-clad damsel in distress comes...
...movie makes an asset of its minimal budget by interpolating abstract footage and a few surreal "trial" sequences that both tease and pay homage to gay feminism. For the uninitiated, there are a few comic "inside" glimpses, as when Max and her clan gossip about lesbians in history, from k.d. lang all the way back to Eve. At heart, though, Go Fish is a chummy date movie about the mundane, urgent business of finding a lover. Max could be any teen on the Friday-night prowl, but with a nice bending of Hollywood theology: girl meets girl, girl gets girl...