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...devastating twist that makes the ending is a surprise, and nevertheless absolutely logical. One feels slightly battered, and yet exhilarated, and ultimately filled with a sweet melancholy. The film's pleasures are practically inexhaustible. There is Marie Dubois as Therese, the chain-smoking philandering, cocotte. There is Georges Delerue's haunting, evocative music. There is the carefree relationship between Jules and Jim, which is made possible by Werner's and Serre's terrific performances. And when all else and, there is Jeanne Moreau's voice. At one point, the film's narrator tells the audience that "the month that [Catherine...
...like the upsets, the wacky wins, Florida falling to James Madison, Kentucky scared by Tennessee State, And then in a cruel twist of fate, The `Cats behind to Seton Hall, Praying and hoping that they will not fall...
Unfortunately I can't delve too much further into the plot, for the sake of the few of you who haven't seen "Psycho." The twists of this story--in particular, one final twist--are so shocking and bewildering that Hitchcock felt the need to include a scene with a shrink to explain it all at the end. This is the one scene where the suspense, held so masterfully up until this point (and afterwards in Norman's final soliloquy), breaks. Some silly guy swings his finger around and ties it all up nicely for us. But keep in mind...
Basically, "Guarding Tess" is a good mindless flick. Enjoy watching several gun-toting men tiptoe around an old lady's flawlessly decorated house. Try to figure out the bizarre and rather sadistic plot twist. But whatever you do, don't think about the movie when it's over--or you'll realize that what seemed like a fun way to flow off an afternoon is really a grossly flawed attempt to milk a single joke for far too long...
...little choice. AT&T's $12.6 billion acquisition of McCaw Cellular Communications, which is still awaiting approval by regulators, put sufficient competitive pressure on MCI that it went out and found its own wireless partner. In an ironic twist, MCI exited the cellular-phone business eight years ago by selling its licenses to McCaw for $120 million. The company is also financially pressed to reduce the $5 billion in fees that it pays to the local Baby Bells for the right to connect to the local telephone network. A wireless system would allow MCI largely to bypass the Baby Bells...