Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The acting itself was uniformly good. William Young, as Thomas Becket, turned in a performance that was for the most part sensitive to the ambiguities and contradictions of his character's personality. We see clearly Becket's greatness; at the same time we are permitted a glimpse into his madness...
"Why," the film's central character, sees things like a child. She wants the objects around her and the places she lives to be soft, friendly, and permanent, When people treat her roughly she is hurt and confused, for she wants to be loved by everybody and tries to make...
In most good traditional novels, one identifies with the characters and, in a sense, enters their lives. In Nog, there is only one character, and the reader's identification is so complete that the two minds-reader's and character's-virtually become one. The book's outlook-for the...
Everything outside of the self is in the unstable world governed by memories, and almost all of the self, even to some extent its basic physical activities, finds its way to the shadow-world, too. Thus life and death become irrelevant, "friend" is a meaningless term, and "will" is undefinable...
Frey even runs away with the film at times-although he is the last character to be introduced, not appearing until about an hour of the picture has elapsed. At one point he tells us (in a voice that could not only curdle blood but the contents of one's...