Word: obsessionals
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Fortunately half of the drama's stress is on the individual--the Jew, Andri--and here the production shines. Andri thinks he's a Jew, and it flatters the people's image of themselves to tolerate him when he's young. He tries to emulate them. But when their obsession...
In Strindberg's obsession, any relationship between the sexes tended to take on the character of a Hundred Years' War-there might be some redemptive moments, some victories, but mostly it would be nasty, brutish and nearly interminable. Marriage became a sort of ugly paradigm of the human...
Yet it remains an apple, not an abstraction. The painting becomes an exemplary one in Giacometti's work because its real subject is the artist's lifelong obsession as a sculptor: the enormous difficulty of seeing anything clearly at all and the near impossibility of truthfully remaking what...
The effect of the work has nothing to do with expressionism. For all their thinness and scarred surfaces, Giacometti's bronzes are not about anguish or loss, loneliness or the post-Hiroshima terrors. They are emotionally quite ineloquent. This may be one reason for their survival into a time...
Here, however, the object of the obsession is so thoroughly without mystery that it comes to look like little more than a stubborn caprice. With a Gatsby crippled by such a dismal Daisy, the movie must be sustained by its secondary characters. There is little enough strength there. As Daisy...