Word: unrealism
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...First Communist. Father Molnar explained his peculiar faith to his visitors, just as his congregation was leaving his hilltop church, the women placid in bright calico skirts, the men proud in black Sunday suits and polished black boots. Father Molnar has built up an unreal paradoxical world in which history's most sharply opposite faiths are fantastically synthesized. He declared himself a strong believer in Marxism, but he maintained that spiritual guidance remained the clergy's rightful monopoly. On his bookshelf, he keeps church literature next to Stalin's Problems of Leninism. Marx's Kapital...
...other extraordinary scene is laid in a Franciscan monastery where three Army chaplains--Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish--seek refuge. War has passed by the monks, leaving them in their unreal tranquillity with no concern greater than the aim of converting the Protestant and the Jew. The monks are oblivious to the Catholic chaplain's attempts to reason with them; he begs them to accept the fact that the two "heathen" are just as religious in their own way--but the monks can only sit fasting in horrified silence...
...picture is especially noteworthy for its lack of Hollywood exaggeration or unreal emotion, although it strains at one touch of sentimentality when the inmates tearfully sing "Going Home" at an asylum dance. Except for this minor defect, the film's purity aids it in revealing the dark horrors of mental disease at the bottom of a snake...
...cannot face certain unpleasant realities and so withdraws into an unreal world...
...copy of Arthur Wing Pinero or Henry Arthur Jones and accept the report that Belasco is dead. "The Leading Lady," the play involving the two Miss Gordons (both of whom are married to the play's director--which suggests a dilemma more interesting than the current play) is an unreal bit of pink fluff that might be found floating about in the mind of some stage-struck school girl, no where else...