Word: raping
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DUBIOUS ASSUMPTIONS lie under the most tantalizing metaphors, works of art, philosophical arguments. Last summer my boss, a journalist, described America's radical movement as a rape by disturbing forces to which the country would now for ever be reluctantly indebted for its arousal. This provoked an irate and speedy reaction from a nun, who began her letter: "Perhaps it's just journalism...
Scott is about to commit suicide when Rigg walks in and provokes him into raping her. As she is the one who reaffirms his potency (he's halfdrunk, of course, and she's asking for it, so the rape is morally all right), it's quite conceivable that he should fall in love with her--an ex post facto defense of his actions, a justification of his renewed will to live, and so forth. But the film doesn't examine any of these possible motivations: "And so they fell in love." Period...
...play, a style which does nothing to enhance the fluidity and concentration of the original. By far the worst sin of the film can be attributed to the censors, who apparently disliked even the idea of Stanley attacking Blanche, let alone its graphic illustration. So the climatic rape scene is not climactic but ambiguous, which leaves the close of the film, wherein Blanche is shown completely psychotic, highly unsatisfactory. Unless it is clear that there is a rape, one of Streetcar's themes is subverted and its resolution arbitrary rather than inevitable and tragic...
...Harvard commitment to fight the taking of its bequeathed land for environmental rape at this time--as the case heads for the United States Supreme Court--could be effective not only in making Con Ed think twice about pursuing its white elephant further, but also in establishing, for once an environmentally sound policy for the University...
...posturing, in his self-willed, self-conscious contempt for the weak, the ordinary and the feminine, in the exquisite tastelessness of that first brutal hour, the sensibility of A Clockwork Orange is pure Rolling Stones. Pop vulgarity in all its ambiguity. At one point, Alex, in the midst of rape and assault, breaks into the old Fred Astaire number "Singin in the Rain," and all the contradictions pour through. The scene is morally obscene, but technically masterful. It is appalling, as it should be, and exhilarating, as it should not. The film works in its pose, not its substance...