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...brilliant performance by Gian Maria Volonte as the tough Roman cop who slits the exquisite throat of his mistress to test his own power against the State's justice...
...remains stagnant, detached from the dynamic politico-economic context that created it. This is not to say, however, that Volonte is "unconvincing" in the realistic portrayal of an individual pig-figure. His characterization is in fact masterful in embodying the all-important humanist absolute, Ambiguity, as he transforms the cop smoothly, almost imperceptibly-within single shots-from an archetypal tyrant to a snivelling child. It is the very wholeness of his self-contradictory nature that precludes our connecting him concretely to other aspects of reality, i.e. perceiving political signification. Petri uses this character, an integral part of the System...
...emphasize them, on both image and narrative levels. Internal contradictions remain implicit and unarticulated dualities, emotional more than rational. The illusion-reality double ending is perhaps the film's ultimate equivocation, refusing to make even one unambiguous political statement on the crude level of extending the corruption of one cop to encompass his buddies on the police force as well. The film signifies nothing political, but leaves us with a single fascinating freeze-frame fetish to perceive however we wish...
...season sounds incredible [March 29]. Cop turned priest? How about featuring a bulldozer operator turned brain surgeon, a Sumo wrestler who moonlights as a ballet dancer or a defensive lineman who embroiders baby clothes to pay for a hamburger franchise...
...American Dream. Or maybe the super cop-out. Liberal law student marries Maddox-admiring, Spiroesque Tricia. Muffled beneath her pink and pastel dresses and white lace she says, in response to the Agnew press critiques, "Never underestimate the power of fear...