Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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A VAMPIRE LIKE woman with a triangle of burns on her chest lights a cigarette and passes it to Rip Torn asking. "Would you like to burn me?"
Torn: "I don't want to especially, but I will if you want me to." (Near the end of the film he will burn another girl. This will be one of the signs that he is Coming Apart.)
Burning a person with a cigarette is a fair example of the first option. Torn, who plays a psychiatrist and thus knows how to hurt people most profoundly, chooses the second.
What I resented most about Coming Apart is that it concentrates on two of the elements that I like best in movies-sex and misery-and yet still doesn't make it.
The sex is clinically portrayed and very unappealing. I hate movies that pretend to be arty skinflicks and then don't come through. I Am Curious (Yellow) falls into this category: you see the pair's equipment and you even see them Do It, but it's as exciting as...