Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actors, inextricably involving the audience with her characters. Wertmuller has said that she makes political films to reach a mass audience, by which she presumably means the working class. If Swept Away does reach a mass audience, as its current success suggests it may, no working class viewer will recognize its political intentions. He will only see a great love story reaffirming sexist roles, and in so doing he will not misread Wertmuller's true feelings...
...animated films, Down in the Deep is amazing as a curiosity: made in 190 in color, each frame was hand-painted. Otherwise it is boring, a sentimental undersea adventure with stilted mermaids. Dreams of Wild Horses (1960), on the other hand, tears at the viewer with the same urgent power with which two stallions in the film dance and kick and bite. It gives us nine minutes of wild horses in the south of France rippling in slow motion through marshes, waves, and spray. In the end, horses leap over walls of fire, sucking their bellies up into themselves, trying...
Mora's chronology of the 1930s is unnecessarily obscured from his viewers by the lack of any narration or subtitles identifying the scenes. Most viewers are hard pressed to identify the shock-stricken father of John Dillinger being interviewed after his son's violent death at the hands of J. Edgar Hoover's newly armed G-men. The significance of many of the scenes is reduced by their brevity and the breakneck pace at which Mora carries the viewer through the period...
...homosexual lover. The moronic quality of his relations with his parents and his dull-witted wife is also explored, proving to be extraordinarily unattractive and beyond most people's own experience. One tries to be sympathetic, in the nothing-hu-man-is-alien-to-me manner. But the viewer leaves the theater with that most devastating of disclaimers: This has nothing to do with...
...real sense of sublimity-a white blade of water dividing the black walls of rock. But in general it is clear that in the expressive Chinese phrase, the "mandate of heaven" had been withdrawn from most traditional-style Japanese painting by the turn of the century. No matter; the viewer goes to this show for its older works, and they are superb...