When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade

It is impossible to extrapolate a single, definite point of view from them: they seem to demand that we look everywhere at once, be everywhere at once.

The film opens a Pandora's box of forbidden pleasures, linking a marginally acceptable guilty fantasy-running wild in a department store-to a much darker and more sinister one, that of having a license to kill.

jeremiad,

Space, as well as time, disappears in the black hole between two shots. And the editing even devours different levels of reality:

making the chaos of the world work for you; it means dropping a fixed, static identity-which is always your most vulnerable point-and finding the freedom to adopt a series of superficial, provisional ones, all of which become incorporated into an ever-growing you.

Jonah

infelicitous

He isn't acting anymore-he's living, and he's having one hell of a time.

That's one of the marks of a great film artist, I think-the ability to compress, condense, to find resonance in the simplest of images, and to never waste an image, making it work on a number of levels.