Word: unreality
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...features splendid acting and, of course, the perennial treat of Pinterian dialogue. The show succeeds in being entertaining and often engrossing--when it doesn't attempt to put a spin on the mystery of the characters' motivations. But when director Schevey fiddles too much with the sense of the unreal intrinsic to Pinter's works, things tend to go awry...
...this early point in the season, it seems like the Tigers (6-0, 2-0 Ivy, No. 13 nationally) will lay waste to the rest of the Ivy League. Twelve goals in two games is rather unreal, even if there isn't any offsides in NCAA field hockey this year...
...shows his affection for the hapless Dawn by making a variety of dates with her on which, he informs her ahead of time, he will rape her. It's a dangerous move on Solondz's part, but within the context of the film the threat of rape becomes so unreal, so divorced from the reality of rape or even sex that it makes the audience experience the confusion of very early adolescence in which terms like these seem an unknowable code of adulthood rather than real entities to be grappled with...
...Nordell, service in the war did not mean that he sat around trading stories. Instead, the time spent in the trenches and the jungles seemed almost unreal...
...kind of embarrassing to be writing this, 25 years later. Our college years and our protests seem both real and unreal, surreal (Oh yes, we did take lots and lots of drugs. Remember drugs?). So many of our chants and speeches--I've been poring through torn, yellowing Crimsons--seem just as naive and self-important as the grown-ups always said...