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Hand in the Trap. Argentine Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson takes a Bergmanesque approach in telling a story of passion and provincial puritanism. His caustic comments on the Argentine way of life, which makes prisoners of women, are both vivid and ironic...
Geographically, Argentina's Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and Sweden's Ingmar Bergman are poles apart; esthetically, the two directors are quite close. Both record the contortions of provincial puritanism in a style of sensuous opulence. Torre Nilsson is less intense and less profound, but he has something vivid and ironic to say about a society in which women are fenced like cattle and cattle are allowed to run free...
...Shaped Room marks Leslie Caron's successful transition from gamin to grownup. Her love scenes with hawk-faced Tom Bell are vivid; her way of mumbling silently to herself in moments of despair evokes such heartbreak that viewers will want to hug her and say, there, there, everything will be all right. There is a taste of Honey and an aftertaste of Anger about The L-Shaped Room that give it an honorable place among British slice-of-life films...
Boring enrolled in Titchener's course in elementary psychology in the fall of 1905; the verve of Titchener's lecturing remained vivid five years later when, after working eighty-four hours a week for a year in a steel plant, Boring went back to Cornell. He intended to try for an A.M. in physics, so he could teach, but again got trapped into psychology--this time by earthworms, paramecia, and flatworms...
West has used a number of fictional devices to make vivid this confrontation of Christendom and Communism. The horror of nuclear war and atomic fallout is made a live issue by the birth of monster babies in Rome. They have been deformed by the merciful work of a doctor who gave their mothers a new soothing drug-something like thalidomide-and. with equal mercy, kills their offspring. The critical point between science and morals thus gives narrative weight to the Pope's concern over atomic...