Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alberto, the Revolution immediately meant a chance to finish high school. "I was studying in the private school. All the government schools were closed because of the student strikes and everything. My father was a truck-driver and he didn't earn much money; my mother had to work in the morning, afternoon, and evening also, to pay for my studies. I wouldn't have been able to continue if the Revolution didn't come and open the national schools...
What has this meant for the members of this generation? The Cubans in our brigade are sons and daughters of barbers, truck-drivers, mechanics, farm workers, and factory workers. Through study, they have all become technicians and teachers. Raul became a radio technician, Carlos an administrator, Lazara a Russian teacher, Alberto and Juanito history teachers, Hugo was sent to Russia to study economics...
Pedro drives a truck for eight hours during the day and studies for three hours at night. In 1972 he will go to the university to study medicine. When he becomes a doctor, he will make the same salary as truck-drivers. Like all doctors, he will spend the first two years in the countryside...
...perverse characters and grotesque objects of Chabrol's earlier films take a part in La Femme Infidele. The taller of the two anarchic clowns, whom he has repeatedly employed, turns up unshaven in a bar and insults the protagonist as he passes through. The shorter one appears as a truck driver who rams the rear of the hero's car at a crucial moment. But like the extravagant colors and camera motions that La Femme Infidele inherits from the earlier films, these characters have become precisely integrated and thereby far deeper in emotional effect. The boorishness of the second clown...
...realistic credibility breaks down, the film begins to operate on a different level of observation. For example, the meeting poses the question of what can turn white radicals into militant revolutionaries. Mark's development should provide an answer, but the progression is implausible. In a truck, driving with his roommate, he talks about a need to Act Now, and soon afterwards he's shaken up in a police station by some appropriately vicious Pigs. This prompts him without further thought to buy a gun. Frechette's acting stresses listless pragmatism, and his quick transition to Militancy is not convincing...