Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filmed version of the play (TIME, Feb. 28, 1969), and Williamson is a man of the theater in the same way that a tiger is a creature of the jungle. This means that he transcends the celluloid and holds the audience in a dramatic vise. His eyes sear the viewer. He is not speaking to the air; he is speaking to you. As far as Williamson is concerned, elocution be damned. Poetry be damned. Meaning is all. Never has Hamlet been rendered with more clarity or more biting timeliness, and that includes Gielgud, Olivier and Burton. Shakespeare held the mirror...
...psychiatrist who decides to act out his sexual fantasies and record the results with a concealed movie camera which films all the escapades which occur in his living room. He leaves his wife, drops his patients, and sets himself up as a photographer to lure women. The movie the viewer sees is the one which the shrink makes. It documents his disintegration...
...what he does when the movie camera is off and the nature of his relationships with his mistress and wife. The fixed-camera experiment is a radical application of the modern assumption that the teller's point of view is all-important in the interpretation of a story. The viewer never knows the "whole" situation, but only the portion that...
...Coming Apart , the camera offers no help in interpreting the happenings on screen, abandoning the viewer to puzzle over the ambiguities. The viewer sees only the abysmal way the psychiatrist treats everyone, and his breakdown. There are no explanations beyond the acts themselves. The question "Why?" is as irrelevant as it is unanswerable, Coming Apart is ironically, post-psychological...