Word: orozco
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...film is also maundering, as if taking its tone from Burton's characterization. To suggest the violence and turmoil of revolution, Losey relies on the murals of Rivera and Orozco, to which he dollies in at all too frequent intervals. Rather than heightening the sense of political turbulence, however, this deadens it, lending The Assassination of Trotsky the faintly instructional air of a classroom film strip. By contrast, the movie assassination is staged like a scene out of some Hammer horror epic. Trotsky roars and staggers about after Jacson has smashed his skull with an ice ax. Images...