Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The misery is equally unsatisfying. You can't feel sorry for anyone because you can't begin to identify with any of the characters, particularly the protagonist. My standard for identifying with movie characters is not high: the character may be as unintelligent or misguided as he likes, but he...
Coming Apart's interest slim as it is, consists in having two avant-garde elements at its center. The protagonist is that archetypal figure of the West in this country: the psychiatrist. In theory this could have been one of the movie's strong points: how the man's highly...
Coming Apart's other innovation is that it's filmed from a fixed camera: every scene is the same. This experiment does have interesting implications, but it also intensifies the movie's already pronounced basic tediousness. You would get tired of looking at the same living room even if the...
The severely restricted point of view causes this incompleteness of knowledge about the protagonist's motivation. If filmed in a more typical way, the story of the psychiatrist's disintegration might have been augmented by scenes describing what he does when the movie camera is off and the nature of...
By the end of the movie he has easily seduced a girl who was a former patient of his. The Cardinal Sin. She has lost her job and apartment because of the demands he has made on her. She begs him to take care of her. He is of course...