Word: paranoia
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Prince of the City. A corrupt New York cop (Treat Williams) further corrupts himself as he tries to expiate his crimes. Sidney Lumet has directed a fiercely acted and harrowing descent into paranoia's hellish center...
...cliches. Her husband, an adman, is worn down by the slogans of his profession, so cut off from reality that he longs to dismiss the product entirely: "A structuralist's dream--advertising for its own sake!" There is a psychological as well as social basis for Bab's paranoia: her mother, whom she locks in the closet and taunts with lines like. "I'm fucking the dog, Mom" comes out and announces. "Children were given to us by you-know-who so that we could make order out of our own lives." It's a chilling vision, perhaps closer...
...movement--she assiduously avoids Adler and Jung--the author provides a rather scorching insight into the analytic establishment. The image of these beacons of the analytic community, privy to the holy of holies of the human mind, playing mean and vicious power games and displaying no small modicum of paranoia, induces a sobering feeling about what the phrase "psychic determinism" actually means...
...Davies' self-destructive persona--"Yoyo" delineates the internal discombobulation of a typical businessman. In "Destroyer," Davies rips off his own famous "All Day and All Night" guitar riff from 15 years ago and instead of mearly declaring love, the power chords represent the "Little man" always in his head, paranoia. The title song applauds humanity's affection for seeing sex and violence: "We all sit glued while the killer takes aim...hey ma, there goes a piece of the president's brain!" And the slow tunes continue Davies catalogue of kooks--"Art Lover" is a man who loves to watch...
...Carter and a former member of the contact group: "We are in danger of being on the wrong and losing side, as we were in Viet Nam, Iran and Nicaragua." A tilt toward South Africa, he adds, is "shortsighted, naive and part of [the Administration's] ideology and paranoia toward Communism. The South Africans' hope is to turn attention away from self-determination and racial domination to an East-West arena...