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...other films are even fizzier on matters relating to eternity. Meet Joe Black offers a curt description of the afterlife as "the next place," while City of Angels explains it as "living--just not the way you think." This reminded me of a sad dream I once had, one that has stayed with me a long time, in which my dead father appeared at the foot of my bed and I asked him to pass on the wisdom of the universe. He thought about it for a moment and then offered, "You win some, you lose some." Hey, maybe...
Scorsese has told his tale at a pace just a little fizzier than the merely lifelike, encouraged his cameraman Michael Ballhaus to light it one notch brighter than reality, one notch darker than fantasy. His splendid actors never pause to explain their strange behavior. The result is a delirious and challeng- ing comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown...
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