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...children and babies your heart goes out to most, and to mothers who stare vacantly at you as they try to suckle babes at dried-up breasts . . . Watching people die slowly from starvation is worse than watching them die quickly in war. The look of utter despair on their faces is something I'll never forget...
Death Wish is ugly not only because of its contentions but because it has the utter gracelessness of a polemic. Director Michael Winner presents what one can only surmise is his neurotic view, and his facile efforts to render the film in an "artistic" way only make it uglier. Charles Bronson and Hope Lange as husband and wife are meant to conjure up domestic felicity, but their relationship is as superficial as the Instamatic photos he takes of her. Bronson, who is supposed to be attractive, has the film presence of a slab of ham. And thus his acts emerge...
...this way the romantic prose be comes reality, and a necessary part of this reality, Kundera cheerfully demonstrates, is that the poet be an utter...
...youth and the intellectual left--having found each other several years before in a shared feeling of utter powerlessness to counter the increasing irrationality of American policy in Southeast Asia--had brought down (or so it seemed at the time) LBJ and his great war machine and were on the verge of leading America to a renewal of democratic policy-making and a moral view of the world. Eugene McCarthy had started humbly in New Hampshire, but had brought the message home to LBJ that Americans wanted peace and would no longer accept American involvement in a jungle...
...scream there is a misplaced sense of horror--as if the tragedy resides in the fact of Willy's death (a fact we know to be impending from the very start), rather than in the nature of his life, in the horror of a man as he watches the utter wasteland of his life come crashing through his last remaining Maginot line of self-delusion. The crucial point here is that Willy is not just a broken-down salesman--he never was a salesman. For he finds the proposition which his brother Charley puts to him, that "the only thing...