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This sensibility begins, perhaps, with Cameron's willingness to let his wife "delete" what she calls his "truck driver" language and their desire to make their action films "intense, uncompromising, but with the amount of gore restrained and deaths inferred offstage -- even those of people you'd like to see torn limb from limb," as he puts it. It proceeds through the fact that in both The Terminator and Aliens, evil is symbolized by nonhuman characters; it continues with the demonstration, in both pictures, that "it's more interesting to see a normal person in abnormal circumstances than a highly...
...Lulled by interstate monotony, the unwary sometimes fail to notice the split, and circle the city on the 35s and their various permutations until they give up and opt for Waco. That furnishes the underpinning for the legend of the ghost of I-35. It is said in Western truck stops that once a young couple with a small child (some versions claim twin children) circled Dallas in July until their auto air conditioner failed and they died, and that on still nights when the moon is full and there is a lull in traffic, you can hear the wail...
What the explorer did not know was that cabbies routinely pilot the lost through Boston streets. Floyd is a truck driver who has been delivering Russell Stover candy to the same warehouse in Boston for 15 years. "Tried it on my own a couple of times," he says. "I figured, hell, I can deliver in Nashville which is impossible, I'll soon have Boston in my head, but I'd get to one of them damn rotaries and on to another, rear back and find myself at the first again. And then there was always that same underpass that...
...Self- Portrait with Doll, 1920-21, Kokoschka is seen pointing with a woebegone expression at its sexual parts, presumably to indicate a cooling of the one- sided affair. Eventually, after he and some friends got drunk, he "murdered" the doll and flung it on a garbage truck in Dresden: the dumper dumped...
During the movie, you grow to view George as a tragic figure, doomed never to succeed and always to suffer. But at the end, he walks away from what should be breaking his heart, and finds happiness under a greasy truck, side by side with his friend the fat mechanic. He's too adaptable, too accepting of his fate to live up to the Lear-esque expectations he creates. But expectations aside, Hoskins' performance is so human, so natural, so believable, that it makes this otherwise unspectacular film very much worth seeing...