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Jimmy Caragianes, strolling in the midafternoon sun down Pearl St., across the snowbanks and through the slush, is a moving center of attention. Everyone but everyone know him--drivers slow to ask if he needs a ride, passersby wave or shout...
...teaches different lessons. Students who want to learn something here must become very aggressive, running down professors, battling with departmental bureaucracy, juggling schedules, cajoling, demanding. students who want change can either join a token committee--on which they must either behave acceptably or lose any influence--or chant and shout. Students who want to "succeed" here too often feel they must do so by beating out their friends, by academic toadying or by unrelenting competitiveness. Today at Harvard, the majority of students, faculty and administrators are alienated from each other, locked into a self-perpetuating cycle of contempt, resentment...
...begins Jerry Skolimowski's The Shout, a tedious, fabricated "sojourn" into the world of mental illness, the realm between fantasy and reality, and the hinterland of primitive magical heeby-jeebies. This film has been widely praised and heartily recommended for "serious moviegoers" (always beware of this one) and has won for itself a slew of awards. Its style has been praised as the cinematic equivalent of James Joyce, which it may well be, but then again, when was the last time you picked up Finnegan's Wake for a couple hours of enlightenment...
...MOVIE continues to delve into the abstract, we learn that Anthony's reason and civility are no match for Crossley's magic, pointed bones, and his shout, a killer shout he learned in Aborigine country which can kill anything within range. In fact, Anthony ends up losing his patience, his wife, and ultimately his mind to Crossley's vicious, primitive personality...
...Shout--Orson Welles, daily...