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...unfaithful, pornographers, irresponsible mass communicators and those responsible for violent crime. But a mere listing does not do justice to the sense of disease and malaise that is in our hearts, the disappointment and disgust often felt between generations as moral standards are challenged or forgotten, the bewilderment and despair many feel over their loss...
...wave of mounting despair swept across Lebanon through most of last week, as the conflict between left-wing Moslem and right-wing Christian factions exploded into yet another round of fighting. The strife that had intermittently rocked the country since April was spreading. The street battles were fiercer than ever, and the government seemed unable to halt them. Reflecting the grim mood was Radio Lebanon Announcer Sharif Akhawi, who said on the air: "Armed men are everywhere. All roads are closed. Blood maniacs are at large. We are losing Lebanon...
...strengths of Brother Can You Spare A Dime? lie in the director's creation of a vivid image of a decade characterized by uncertainty and despair, a decade brightened only by America trust in Roosevelt as a paternal cult figure and by the refreshingly lighthearted fantasies of Hollywood. Disorder and confusion are starkly represented in scenes depicting violent strikes at a Ford Motor Company plant, a Communist rally in New York, a Ku Klux Klan gathering and MacArthur's dispersal of the Bonus Army's Washington gathering in the waning days of the Hoover Administration...
Brother Can You Spare A Dime? emerges as a realistic view of American life in the 1930s. But Mora jaundices his collection of Depression-era vignettes by his exaggeration of Hollywood as the focal point of the American consciousness. The film is an expressive view of the matrix of despair, apathy and frivolity that characterized. American 1930s. But the impressionistic documentary is weakened by the obscurity of many of the scenes. Mora has created an imposing cinematic edifice, yet concealed its foundations from his audience...
...those of us foreigners who have luckily escaped being saddled with the albatross of American self-condemnation, the self-flagellating despair of bourgeois life has always been a puzzle. For three decades, we in the rest of the world have watched American movies with mouth-dripping envy, fantasizing about the day when we too will have those shiny Formica kitchens, the big cars with lots of chrome, blinking computers everywhere, Las Vegas, Gary Cooper. It seemed like paradise, but good old Richard Cory just went and shot himself. In spite of its inane aspects, the recent flood of nostalgia...