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rooted in religious tradition and, if their understanding and knowl- The action unfolds in parallel lines. Michael Douglas, recently edge are deficient, they have nonetheless remained...
...Written during his long trek home...
...Schumacher and Smith lack the talent or perhaps Ticotin walks through her role as if she had been auditioning even the desire for such artistic unity...
...Garner, I've come regarding some disturbing reports 1991 massacre at a restaurant called Lubby's of about a score about your dog...
...In fact, I'll wager that that tragedy was one of the inspirations for willing to give up his life in expiation and despair...
...and again produce the future If nomadic beasts lick Lot's wife seems so long, the night so white, in passing, if the taste the moonlight white enough has hardened there, the beasts, to be salt upon the ground...
...We know the two are bound to meet at the climax of the story with fatal results for SCREEN either or both...
...To reach an L.A...
...Douglas's role is that of a walking time bomb and we are meant to share the fear of his ex-wife (Barbara Hershey) that he will wreak destruction on her and her child...
...lay behind her pulling the glance backward or something of what is gone to see whether its pieces could be retrieved, have, perhaps, already shattered...
...He just entered and started slaugh- liberal-humanist credentials in the final reel...
...still innocent, find The innocent animals thirst only thirst, and the taste among the stones-so many, of regret on their tongues...
...Thus, this movie...
...El problems) trying to track down Douglas...
...A woman turns only the moon fruits among silver stalks in the white sheets, that have wintered over...
...When our hero waves a rifle at the terrified crowd of fast-food patrons, the close-ups of each customer, food dropping from the mouths of some, are calculated to make us laugh at the victims...
...But one sequence is both particularly ugly and quite revelatory of the filmmakers' odiousness...
...Frost heaves little fists It is no light thing and heels of rock to look back and harder still up out of the sleeping garden...
...with trepidation, winter over, the conscience of the garden wakes...
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...reveals the garden and woods, In the garden at the time between seasons its creatures...
...first The only redeeming features of this movie are the two lead lectures the counter people on the worthlessness of the food performances and one supporting job...
...Michael Douglas, recently edge are deficient, they have nonetheless remained attached to fired, divorced, and subject to dementia, abandons his car in the identity and values of their religious communities...
...That may satisfy tering...
...street repairmen who don't even wait for our pedestrian to speak before they start verbally abusing him...
...pus ministers, and other committed adults are not whistling in We are switched back and forth from Douglas's progressively the wind...
...This dangerous time between seasons Lot's wife, nameless...
...Falling Down that we cheer him on as he retaliates: an unrelievedly nasty has its poisonous cake and eats it, too...
...But if the Douglas sequences are intended ing his body upright with offended reasonableness, Douglas as satire, how could they exist in the same movie with the ob- marches his character to his doom...
...as though truth could germinate right there and uproot her...
...so white-already accumulated in the garden...
...Like Henry Fonda and Peter Finch at at their ease even as he terrifies them with the weaponry he's their best, he achieves an art that conceals art...
...The usually vivid Barbara created a monstrous, perfectly stylized world for these grotesques Hershey is dim as Douglas's ex...
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...As a policewoman, Rachel to inhabit...
...a skinhead fascist, who not only manhandles Douglas but even hints that he might sodomize him before our lovable psycho is forced to blow him away...
...Each encounter contains something nasty and/or ludicrous that is beside, or goes beyond, the point of each episode...
...or Ph.D...
...people at random even as he killed others...
...pompous countryclub golfers who refuse to let Douglas quietly walk over their green...
...for her new TV series, "Crime and Punishment" (in which, by Having exhilarated their audience with Douglas's vendetta the way, she is very good...
...Imagine Gulliver's enough and not an inch further...
...Courses are arranged within two three-week modules (June 21-July 9; July 12-July 30...
...Duvall can't seem to they're serving and then walks about trying to put the patrons make a wrong move...
...This characterization is more admirably seen and felt scenes such as the one in which a little black boy is able to by the actor than by the writer...
...And, as if to prove that even the most crazed of persons some viewers but I'll take an honestly Fascistic movie like Dirty can't be pigeonholed too easily, he deliberately spared certain Harry any day instead of this pseudoliberal hogwash...
...How disgusting to evoke such a piteous real-life catas- only natural, he's compelling...
...cradling the saved seeds...
...These aggressors aren't even valid representatives of the irritating people we may encounter during ..our own daily routines...
...As Duvall's a naturalist's descriptions of barnyard life...
...It's an obvious set-up but a perfectly valid one for a melodrama or a satire or a serious study of urban anomie...
...The feeling of justified vengefulness dangerousness...
...fast-food employees so smarmy and rude that we long for Douglas to wipe the tight little smiles off their fresh-scrubbed faces...
...Michael Douglas lacks Duvall's residare created, in the spirit of satire, to be targets of scorn...
...That he's magnetic when playtrophe just to score cheap satirical points, to turn Michael Douglas ing obsessives in Apocalypse Now or The Great Santini is fitinto a sort of Ralph Nader with an automatic...
...ual power...
...of people by a madman armed to the teeth as Douglas is...
...Strangelove was shrewish spouse, Tuesday Weld, sadly encased in fat and legitimately peopled by monsters because Stanley Kubrick had screeching monotonously, repels...
...In the final encounter, Duvall so con- cleaning up at the box office because it tries to be all things to vinces Douglas that he's been a "bad guy" that the vigilante is all people and, alas, succeeds...
...Another "hot" American movie that is tagonist for his violence...
...But the filmFailing Down is a dishonest film but it's not hard to makers don't want us to be completely distanced from him see how its very dishonestly has made it a hit...
...But consider this: that real-life madman wasn't pro- Falling Down, a rabble-rouser for ninety minutes, affirms its voked by insolent service...
...bright and dark but no longer snow...
...But Douglas...
...We do have an audience, a young one, already send- more violent encounters to Duvall (who has his own domestic ing out signals that it verges on being receptive...
...the moon hangs so full looking back as if the answer it may fall and break...
...against fools and knaves, the filmmakers then punish their pro- So there you have it...
...ting but not surprising...
...The Summer Program is conducted in a congenial atmosphere where morning and evening prayer are a daily part of community life...
...A plainclothes cop (Robert Duvall), who has cepted filters we use to hear and to see them...
...Travels's satirical-fantasy episodes shuffled in with straight- Oddly enough, in the supporting cast, all the important feforward maritime adventures, or Animal Farm interrupted by male players perform well below their usual level...
...traffic jam and starts walking "home" to an ex-wife and serve them, we need to discard many of the commonly ac- who fears him...
...But he's not toting...
...Latino punks played as the inhabitants t ~-- -~ SUMMER PROGRAMS IN THEOLOGY AND LITURGY AT THE IVERSITY OF NO D E J U N E 2 1 J U L Y 3 0 You can work toward an M.A...
...UnVIGILANTE CHIC fortunately, Falling Down just slaps all three genres together 'FALLING DOWN' into one phony mess...
...II...
...We are not reach- helped push Douglas's car out of the way, gradually comes to ing out entirely to strangers and aliens but more likely to young realize that the disgusted motorist and a certain madman terpeople who have their own reasons to hear us out...
...He must really work to deliver, but here he does I do grant that the script shows a certain bent for mischief in deliver...
...Seeming stockier than usual teach Douglas how to use a bazooka by having seen the weapon in a white dress shirt, squinting behind nerdy glasses, holdused so much on TV...
...So what is their solution...
...22: 9 April 1993 Commonweal of a paranoid WASP's nightmare...
...Now we all know about the "Mr...
...In the one-scene role of viously nonsatirical scenes of detective Duvall conducting his the skinhead, Frederic Forrest gets under the viewer's skin by investigation...
...You may choose to attend either or both of these...
...in Liturgy or Theology or simply take courses for enrichment...
...became bitterness Memories teeter like glass in her own form, on the bright window le the landscape pillared with her salt...
...But that he can be amiably magnetic But that brings us to the question, isn't Falling Down a satire in Tender Mercies, The Seven Percent Solution, and this and aren't Douglas's victims caricatured simply because they movie, is wonderful...
...to revise nothing, face the face that stands, salted IV, with its private carelessness The wait for daylight to come call it by its accurate name...
...The moon hangs full in the sky In the night, bright moonlight white and ripe as if to nod off in the blocks of the window or fall, full of light...
...They are just maniacs who apparently jumped out of bed that morning hellbent on giving poor Mike Douglas a hard time...
...Korean store owner...
...A satirical vision of life is not something you employing nails-against-the-blackboard mannerisms just far can conveniently bifurcate within one story...
...Do they by Ebbe Roe Smith and directed by Joel Schu- take us so close to the character's thoughts and feelings that macher, this is a vigilante movie with a heart of we empathize with and pity this man even as we cringe at his (fool's) gold...
...RICHARD ALLEVA Commonweal 9 April 1993: 23...
...Parents, cam- rorizing half the city's population are one and the same man...
...In light, white enough to be snow Her years...
...Taking the easy way out, Smith and it methodically arouses in the audience for most of its running Schumacher simply caricature everybody Douglas meets so time is punished only in the last few minutes...
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