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...also one of only three sculptures showing F.D.R. himself. This all seems rather simple, but in truth, telling history is a difficult task these days, filled with experts, historians and special interests. Recently war veterans pressured the Smithsonian Institution to change its presentation of the Enola Gay. The original script for that World War II exhibition, they said, implied that the use of an atomic weapon on Hiroshima was overkill for a blameless enemy...
...references to Dante, to Caravaggio (Pasolini once said that he wrote the script completely around the character of the real Ettore Garofolo, whom he saw one day carrying plates in a restaurant "just like a Caravaggio figure"), to Mantegna's "Cristo morto," to Vivaldi, whose religious music provides the backdrop for much of the film. This tension between Marxism and Catholicism, neorealism and symbolic references, is never overwhelming. It enhances each sequence, beautifying that which is most ugly, most tragic, or even most ordinary in a film determined to expose just these elements of Roman life...
...stablizing influences of Bonnie James and James L. Shelton as Alberta and Willie. Though the two never meet, they share their wisdom, gained through years of experience, with the impulsive Deedee and Shooter. Each has a secret whose tension adds depth to the pure sexual energy of Norman's script, and brings each act to a dramtic conclusion...
...Alberta, she is slightly over shadowed in the mentoring role by the authority of Shleton's Willie. His confrontations with Shooter, and his reminisciences of his past as one of the "Three Blind Mice" with Shooter's father provide the show with its most powerful moments, allowing Norman's script to truly soar...
Otherwise, White has not misstepped, either in her choice of this stunning script, her direction of the actors through moments of high tension and comedy, or the silences that can be the most difficult moments of all to fill on a stage...