Word: thuggish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mention any character's irrelevant off-stage aunt without adding that she holds the world's record (2,164) for reading detective stories in a single year. The hero, a cashiered British navy captain, can't simply have a pretty French mistress with a thuggish father; she must be a Renoir nude and he the head of the Mafia in Marseilles. The captain's wife can't merely be rich and willful; she must run an investment program for the most powerful family in the U.S. and have as a father and uncles...
...EVEN BEYOND such ennui, the film's fraught with moral confusion. Caught between disdainful comedy and genre suspense, Dealing is schizophrenic. The audience ends up applauding the comic Mafia types as they gun down the rather thuggish cops while boogie-woogie hammers away in the background. The final, irrelevant shoot-out is reminiscent of Jacobean revenge drama--and just about as decadent...
...statements issue forth: ubiquitous, invisible cameras whisk us from the streets of Whittier to the airports of Latin America to the state rooms of the White House. the confusion is over-whelming, despite the feverish order De Antonio imposes on his snark hunt. Boyish Richard Nixons jostle elbows with thuggish images of President Nixons. But nowhere is the mystery of the man penetrated. He remains a totally unreal figure, a substance as shadowy as his own infamous five o'clock stubble...