Word: dumbness
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...last, the couple become part of a Castroish band of guerrillas reconnoitering the French woods. Here, the on-camera death agonies of dumb animals provide a new twinge of horror. In the final scene, the wife is enthusiastically munching away on a hearty meal. "They mixed the pig with what was left of the English tourists," explains the leader of the guerrillas. "The ones from the Rolls?" she asks casually, with her mouth full. Another example of Go-dardian overkill...
Will that bastard-saint, the real Al Vellucci, please stand up, wave the life wand and let the dumb speak...
...statistics, to the numbers of blacks turned down by the military, and to the abysmal inability of black Southerners to get jobs, and use these as sociological proof of the cherished racist theories. "Them niggers will never be any good," they cheerily tell squirming visitors. "They's just so dumb that all they like to do is sit around an shoot pool. Damn federal government comes down here tellin' us the niggers are as good as us. All they gotta do is look at 'em to see they're no good...
...their secret moments, almost all of the Southerners seem to realize that the black schools have a fundamental relation with the continued black inferiority in the South. The rednecks who will not admit that Negroes are "just too dumb" because they've been at shoddy schools seem to sense that if the Negroes invade the white schools, a change will be imminent. And that is why school desegregation has become the last stand of the old white order...
Irony comes with the first rays of morning: the tale will never be told, either by the dumb-struck youth or by the dead millionaire. Chilly splinters of the Dinesen style occasionally gleam in the stilted drama. But recurrent lines, like "The earth trembled at the loss of my innocence," are difficult enough on paper; on film they are impossible...