Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening scene of Mr. Klein establishes the unforgettable obscenity of this horror. What is incredible is that the remainder of the film, which won prizes in France, sleazily exploits the viewer's dread and revulsion to keep in motion the stage machinery of a claptrap thriller...
...alltime box office champs?it will certainly be a big enough hit to keep Columbia's stockholders happy. More important, Close Encounters offers proof, if any were needed, that Spielberg's reputation is no accident. His new movie is richer and more ambitious than Jaws, and it reaches the viewer at a far more profound level than Star Wars. The film is not perfect, but, like Stanley Kubrick's similar (if far chillier) 2001: A Space Odyssey, it uses science fiction thrills to seduce the audience into looking at the cosmos metaphysically. Close Encounters is, moreover, its creator's highly...
...Woman of a Thousand Fires" by Chick Stand is the most poetic and difficult to understand. It requires the viewer to have some prior knowledge of its subject, and that knowledge is hard to come by: the topic is the repetitive and ritualized daily tasks of Latin American women. Images of a woman trapped, seeking freedom, swinging a chicken madly around in circles, cutting its entrails out, require more than one viewing, even though the first may keep the viewer trapped for some time...
...named Amy to concentrate her care and affection on, a trying task that is compounded by the stand-offish attitude of Amy's hate-filled older brother. The scenes showing Theresa striving to win over Amy's trust number among the more poignant encounters in the film, giving the viewer a taste of Dunn's better side. But the effect is quickly and skillfully erased when the camera shifts from her classroom to the sleazy Manhatten bars Dunn frequents each night in search of the pick-up, and Brooks cleverly alternates between these two settings throughout the length...
...however, Brooks traps himself in to the quandary of suddenly thrusting the murderer into the narrative without any kind of introduction. A vagrant cowboy type appears out of nowhere, picks up Theresa at Goodbar's and slays her--all within the brief span of a few minutes, asking the viewer to bite off far more than he can be expected to chew. All of which suggests a film that the director suddenly became bored with, a feeling that most audiences of Looking for Mr. Goodbar will find very easy to share...