Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the chief delights "of the ride, he found, are the things one sees on the way: "The tint and character of a leaf, the dreamy, purple shades of mountains, the exquisite lacery of winter branches, the dim, pale silhouettes of far horizons. And I had lived for over 40 years without ever noticing any of them except in a general way, as one might look at a crowd and say, 'What a lot of people...
Actually, the producers have gone out of their way to give the picture a tone of hope. They have, perhaps, gone a little too far. Even the hospital conditions shown in the picture, bad as they are, are actually far better than those in most state institutions...
...picture follows Virginia's progress through the various wards, divided into descending degrees of misery, like the circles of hell. Throughout, it preserves the novel's sharply observed minor touches of asylum life-the nurses' way of speaking in front of inmates as if they weren't there (as some adults speak in front of children); the strange snobbery of the sick who look down on their sicker fellows; the large-looming small idiocies of institutional bureaucracy, such as the clean carpet in one ward which must not be stepped on (and the wonderful old woman...
...simplicity and sympathy. There are times when the simplicity verges on the obvious. But his best scenes are superb. The finest, based mostly on Litvak's observations in the asylums he visited, is laid in the "disturbed" ward. There, amid the weirdly unrestrained babble, the camera makes its way from figure to figure: the girl who slinkily dances about in a pathetic imitation of an evening gown, the woman crouched praying on the floor, the girl with the Ana Pauker haircut pleading "in the name of the Party" that she is not insane. Then, approximating Virginia Cunningham...
...airport to airport by radio ranges which sound an on-course signal in the pilot's ears only when the plane is in one of four narrow beams. Planes outside the beams get little help from the radio. Even when they stay on the beam, they have no way of telling how far they are from the station...