Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves. If, however, a family is poverty-stricken, living in desolation and illness, where a new life might face starvation, why, just add "no sex" to its already deprived existence. However, do not abstain for too long. Duty binds to take yet another whack at producing yet another malnutrition victim...
...there are disadvantages to being Alan Arkin, the submersible actor. Without a dominant personality that remains a constant in each performance, he is the victim as well as the beneficiary of his material. In his two most recent films, his vast comic abilities tick away in a bomb that never goes off, and his gift for pathos and poignancy soars so far above the surrounding melodrama that the film becomes virtually a one-man show...
...Marnie after experiencing for a second time the trauma of her youth. Truffaut is too intelligent to afford dramatic consummation only to Julie's desire for revenge, and some indirect therapy does take place in The Bride Wore Black, Truffaut suggesting that at least three of Julie's victims die more realized human beings, better for having known her. On one extreme the first victim sees Julie and briefly questions the nature of his expedient marriage plans; most seriously, the painter (brilliantly played by Charles Denner) falls deeply in love with her. Julie is cognizant of her potential for redeeming...
...there are no traces of the nouvelle vague hand-held technique of Truffaut's films through Soft Skin. A shot will follow a telephone wire in close-up through two rooms, stopping briefly at a closeup of the phone, then dollying into a medium close shot of the victim, unaware his phone wire has been severed. In this respect, The Bride Wore Black is a calculated film, one difficult to fault because it is plainly exactly what Truffaut wanted...
...engage in any combat operations, and so far none has been killed. But there have been some unnerving moments, When he first went to live in a village, Technical Sergeant Kermit H. Moffett, 30, was greeted by the sight of a schoolteacher hanging dead in a tree, a victim of Communist terrorism. But Moffett stayed on, providing medical help and living just as the Thais did. Communist propaganda teams twice came to the village to hold meetings, but both times they left Moffett alone. He had become too popular with the villagers to be attacked. At another village, Sergeant...