Word: despairingly
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...Face to Face is not just a case history we watch out of morbid curiosity; it is meant to tell us something about ourselves. People less repressed than Jenny are subject to similar, less easily explicable feelings of arid alienation and despair. The character of Jenny is too idiosyncratic, and one has the option of dismissing her. Bergman forces us into excruciatingly close contact with his character, but, he leaves us a loophole by means of which we can evade the larger implications of his film...
...inflation rate of 30 per cent, prices that prevent some 10 per cent of the population from eating meat, or an unemployment rate that does not allow eight per cent of the labor force to earn a living. The ordinary citizen seems to have two alternatives: satirical laughter, or despair...
While some of the late arrivals left the scene in despair, others simply accepted the situation with resignation...
...soul with housing, clothing, a job and eternal peace. Fate could not have been more cruel, then, in denying him the love he craved, in making him so hated during the latter part of his presidency that he dared not venture outside the White House. In his bewilderment and despair, he ruefully asked: "How is it possible that people could be so ungrateful to me after I have given them so much...
...movie ends on a note of tentative renewal. If the despair that has gone before seems too familiar, Jenny's fleeting realization that love is the only salvation seems both easy and forced. The scene that brings her to this insight is a tender sickbed interlude between her grand mother and her ailing grandfather, but it is too frail to be entirely persuasive...