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...spite of this invigorating (or bewildering, as the case may be) pace, the film works, if only because of Le Carre's tightly woven plot. After 40 minutes of confusion the disparate threads come together and the rest of us, if not Charly, can sit back and relax...
...seeks love or absolution-or merely to assess the damage done another victim of the act he abetted-he could not say. And the movie is resolute in its refusal to speak for him or, indeed, for anyone caught in the narrative web it constructs out of loosely woven naturalistic fibers. As it demonstrates through its minor figures the stupefaction that permanent conflict imposes on its victims, the film permits Cal to draw closer and closer to the older woman, upsetting the silent compromise she was on the verge of making with life. He gets a job on the farm...
...like a decadent kiddies album, blending childlike innocence with childish perversity to set a tone that is, simultaneously harming and unsettling. The nursery-rhyme lyrics and the bright melodies on this six-song EP barely mask the obsessive, morbidity lurking beneath. In fact, the darker meanings are so tightly woven into the airy structure of the music that it becomes impossible to separate the perversity from the innocence...
These lovely dresses were carried out in materials woven with both real and artificial fibers. Many of the characteristics of Dior's new mode--the skirts held out by invisible means as well as the soft drapes which held their own line without visible support--owed their qualities to the new, man-made fibers. Indeed, these models would not have been possible without the aid of such novel fabrics as featherweight holland linings and diaphanous but firm, stiffened nylon. --"The Aesthetics of Fashion" James H. Lubowitz, Fine Arts...
Instead of supplementing the character development, the magnificent scenery becomes the commanding force in the movie. Snippets of the plot are woven in between scenes of island life or storm scenes at sea, and as a result the story plays second-fiddle to the settings. We never truly get to know the characters, who seem tremendously inactive but yet paradoxically provoke tremendous dramatic actions. Mel Gibson's Fletcher Christian comes across as a rather weak-willed character, who leads the mutiny because he wants to return to his Tahitian princess. He is given little opportunity to do anything except stand...