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...Vito Perrone, director of teacher educationprograms at the School of Education, says he andother faculty members are working to improvecommunication between faculty and students...
Whatever the case, no youngster has lately, or perhaps ever, been placed in more deadly peril than 10-year-old Vito (Manuel Colao) in Flight of the Innocent. And no director has more vividly realized the plight of an innocent than youthful Carlo Carlei (who wrote the screenplay with Gualtiero Rosella). One fine warm day in Calabria, in southern Italy, Vito's entire family (and a boy they have mysteriously sequestered in a cave nearby) is massacred, and Vito narrowly escapes execution at the hands of a scarfaced man who will stalk him (and his nightmares) for the rest...
...Neither Vito nor the audience entirely understands what's happening to him. All he (and we) know is that he must flee for his life. And therein lies the key to this film's success. For Carlei wants to thrust us into the mind of this almost completely silent boy. He gives us no more information than Vito acquires, in bits and pieces, as he flees to Rome in search of something, somebody -- we're not sure. Carlei's camera is often radically subjective, seeing through Vito's eyes as the boy rushes panicked through the streets. Equally often...
These things we learn in due course: that Vito's sole surviving relative is a small-time crook in Rome; that the dead boy in the cave had been kidnapped by Vito's family and was being held for ransom; that the family's slayers were members of a rival clan (though their precise motives remain obscure). Vito catches glimpses of the dead boy's parents on TV, making anguished pleas for his return. Eventually he feels compelled to make his way to them, and attempts to crawl into their son's bed, into his very life. The moviemakers note...
...elaborate wordplay and complex characters. "The characters are all screwed up," Burton notes. "I find that much more interesting." Returns tops the first movie's shrill wrestling match between Batman (Michael Keaton) and the Joker (Jack Nicholson) with a funnier, more lithe and daring villain: the Penguin (Danny De Vito). He is a vicious troll with a righteous grudge: his rich parents dumped him in the sewer when they saw he had flippers for hands. Now he wants to be loved and, even more, elected -- mayor of Gotham City. In DeVito's ripe performance, Penguin is a creature of Dickensian...