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...insane urge to kill those whom he loves; Simon Simon, his sweetheart and victim, is a mouse-like beauty whose coquetry instils the audience, too, with murderous desires. Jean Renoir's direction provides scenes of electrifying frankness and does more than full justice to the grim realism of Emile Zola, on whose novel of the same title "The Human Beast" is based. Two murders which are all but shown on the screen, one suicide, maddening jealousy and maddening love, puffing locomotives and sooty slums: this should give you your fill of "reality" for more than one night. But however gruesome...
...Human Beast (French). Cunningly Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion] contrasts the distraction of human lives (in this filming of Zola's novel) with the mechanical majesty of locomotives, the modern industrial beauty of the railroad yards, which are regimented, grimy and shabby, but also vast and mysterious. In the morning the yards are seen bustling, in the rain forlorn, at night ominous. There is a gnawing dread that, like the human characters, the rushing trains will destroy each other, kill some one. But in the end it is the humans who kill and are killed...
They will see and hear much more. Brilliantly directed by William Dieterle (The Story of Louis Pasteur, The Life of Emile Zola) and acted by a top-notch cast, The Magic Bullet is another refutation of critics who say Hollywood is allergic to social content in films. Like Pasteur and Zola, The Magic Bullet is loaded with social meaning. Like them, it is first and foremost absorbing entertainment...
Paul Gauguin once wrote, "All this must be; and after all, it's of no consequence. The earth still turns round; everyone defecates; only Zola bothers about it." Now the name of George Grosz might perhaps be substituted for that of Zola in the light of many of Grosz's paintings which are being shown in the current Dunster House exhibit of contemporary watercolors and lithographs...
...Grosz's work. Generally speaking, I would criticize Grosz on neither technical nor moral grounds; it can be admitted, however, that he is too picayune, too eager to seize upon comparatively insignificant, if true, aspects of humanity for the purpose of acrimonious accentuation. Substituting his name for that of Zola, "Everyone defecates; only Grosz bothers about...