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...characters seem to wander through the scenes to allow Wexler to use them nearly as the agents that tie together everything that he really wants to say. And he gets all the big news in there like a true news photographer creep. Kennedy's assassination, King's assassination, Tent City, the Black revolutionaries, the Appalachian ghetto, and finally the police riots in Chicago at the convention. Wexler wants his message to be not just a theortical fiction, but a fiction for a specific reality that we all know about and recognize. And his own documentary footage of Chicago Police brutality...
...play called Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead, two of Shakespeare's littlest characters wander around the edges of one of the most aesthetically sound "systems" of all time, Hamlet. But they don't know what to make of it. Ophelia runs around and Hamlet endlessly rants on. It all looks so stupid and pointless...
Robert Downey wanders around a system, too. The Advertising World America. He does not wander around with a motorcycle, but he has a camera. He records things as he sees them. It doesn't have to make sense. It shouldn't make sense. Like Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. Downey has developed a sensibility for chaos...
Line Guide. The reader rests one finger on the vibrating alphabet unit, while using his other hand to scan the line of print with a probe that picks up and transmits the image of each letter Should the probe wander off the printed line, the lack of vibrations on the pin unit tells the reader to readjust...
...sometimes colloquial, language to describe the woods, the men, and the fire that consumes both: "Each time the cull deck shifted, tons of fuel would resettle and a hundred dozen sparks would be sucked upwards like the spores of some livid fungus." As his dispirited warriors of the soul wander the fire-blasted countryside, a suspenseful psychological drama is created that subtly expresses the themes of innocence, guilt and the corruption of the individual by society...