Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ring doves to humans, while asking the question. "Are we better or worse than animals?" (The animals, of course are unavailable for comment.) Vietnam is reduced to displacement of aggression- we are an aggressive people who project aggression onto minority religions and races, here the Vietnamese. Such a reductionism view explores the racism of the war, but not the economics...
...higher than that of the Ford Motor Company which stood fourth in revenues, and more than the business done by the four largest non-U.S. corporations combined. It amounted to more than 1/8 of the gross receipts of the United States Government in 1968. It is hard to view such an enterprise as "private." conceding even the stockholders no effective role in guiding the policy of the company...
What's most enduring, though, about the movie qua movie is the depth of intimacy between camera and subject, a depth which bespeaks much patience and long familiarity. Warrendale is neither the expose that Follies was not a panegyric like Synanon, but a complex view of an institution which isn't open to easy evaluation. It's clear that more such places are needed, yet it's also clear that personal as well as social obstacles are in the way; with the possible exception of Walter, none of the staff comes off appealing or even particularly competent, more like...
...mingling colors and sensuous personal relationships of Les Biches give it a deceptively tranquil mood. Beneath its apparent softness lie a morality and visual style of steel. The fundamental principle of Chabrol's view of the world is the inevitability of change in the ordering of relationships. In his films the positions of objects in space are altered, often via camera motions, over time. Chabrol carefully organizes other types of change-the evolution of personal relationships being the most explicit-around this basic kind...
...view of the terrorists, the Vietnam war and "the racist oppression of Blacks. Puerto Ricans, and other minority colonies outside American" have been profitable to the economy and therefore an integral product of the political system. Thus it becomes necessary to strike at the corporations as the dynamic behind that system...