Word: unfoldment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pierrot is not a pessimistic statement on the meaningless of human existence. There is too much beauty in the film to be able to come away with a feeling of total despair. In Godard's words, "the cinema, by forcing reality to unfold itself, reminds us that we must attempt to live...
...world also contains their actions. Edelstein plays down his actors' facial expressions and impetuous gestures, orchestrating every body motion into the rhythm of the film. Changes in his characters' positions directly express the progress of the plot and establish a system of relations between his characters which you see unfold before you eyes...
Olsen devotes more than the first third of Silence on Monte Sole to designing the set and lining up the cast for the tragedy to follow. In the balance of the book, the incidents of the massacre unfold with numbing predictability. Time and again Olsen describes how people escaped bullets by burrowing under the corpses of their families or playing dead. Once more he indirectly states one of the irreducible lessons of war: that the human body loses its integrity when struck by pieces of metal moving at high velocity...
STEPS, by Jerzy Kosinski. Acts of cruelty and voyeurism unfold in a series of episodes that are bound together by the author's private vision of inhumanity...
Content for the most part to let the story unfold before his camera, Axel also uses his editing to compound the violence that provides so much of the epic's power. The man-to-man battle scenes are uniquely agonizing (as well as bloody). Romance flows like blood on the beach of a fiord where pounding surf drowns out the horses' hoofbeats...