Word: extinguishers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Sunflower cannot totally extinguish De Sica's guttering genius. A scene of returning Italian soldiers, for instance, is a fine reminder of the noon of neo-realismo. Wives, mammas and children of the missing gather at the railroad station, holding aloft glossy little snapshots, a forest of question marks. Does anyone know the fate or whereabouts of these vanished? The soldiers move on; the incomplete tragedies remain. A bigger puzzle also lingers: Why should so many proven talents squander themselves on Sunflower? For pane? Certainly-but also to counter the sexual revolution with the kind of romantic movie they...
...screeching subways. I saw the poor strangling in the disease and dirty ugliness of the slums. It became acutely clear to me that no amount of legislation or education will ever dispel completely the force of ingrained racial prejudice and that no degree of virtue among the enlightened will extinguish the evil that breeds wars...
...horror stories give me nightmares, and what I see in nightmares are faces. Mostly of kids. One is the face of a kid who is rolling over and over on the ground, trying to extinguish the burning napalm, his flesh turning to charcoal underneath...
SUDDENLY, the plot shifts its course. The strikers occupy the gym. They sit in concentric circles singing "Give Peace a Chance." Even an inane conversation between secretaries cannot extinguish the brutality of police charging into the building, systematically beating the students and filling up the gym with tear gas. The romance turns to nightmare, and the people, even though they have been stick figures, are beaten and bloodied with anguishing realism...
...horror stories give me night-mares, and what I see in nightmares are faces. Mostly of kids. One is the face of a kid who is rolling over and over on the ground, trying to extinguish the burning napalm, his flesh turning to charcoal underneath...