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-- to his name) to translate the themes for American audiences -- whom they both agreed are stupid, stupid, stupid.
If the film concentrated on the main, supposed, themes of crime and suspense instead of putting up barns and shoving ice creams in peoples faces it possibly could have been more worthwhile.
These themes saturate the story to such a degree that the oil company 'sub'plot becomes unnecessary.
I understand that there were Canadian themes and messages, but the fact that the characters and the plot were so disconnected with me (as a spectator) it made me not really care what the film was trying to tell me.
The themes of class distinction, homosexuality, longing-desire, etc. were simple and superficial; no more developed than what one would expect from a first year philosophy student.
I haven't seen any other films by Antonioni and the people that saw this one with me agreed that it shares themes and imagery with the rest of his works.
As time passes from watching the film, its themes and intentions become clearer, but during my initial viewing, I was really confounded, and I find that this is the major fault of the film...its lack of direction.
Of course, like in the case of "Wicked Little Things", controversial themes don't always guarantee a good film.
These things are not original themes in movies.
So when one chooses to involve these themes, the situational story-line had better be very original, or very good.
All the characters are sick in the head, so the least I expected (or hoped for) were more perverted undertones or frenzied themes.
Other main themes are poverty, corruption, church, ambition...
Yet the themes of jealousy and betrayal which should have been the primary focus of a film of this type are left virtually unexplored.
The Sylvia Fowler character had too many sub themes to it.
Michael Burns is quite good as the kid who uses this frumpy, pasty-sick woman just for her comfy digs, but he's handled too bashfully by Altman, with lots of strategically-placed towels and flesh-colored undies (Altman clearly wasn't ready for a mature picture with adult themes at this point).
The casting was horrid, the underlying symbolism and themes were so far lost that no critic could find them (nor the characters), and the stories were vague and sloppy.
The only positive features to credit are the adroit use of some Prokofiev and Stravinsky themes in the music score and the inclusion of some of the distasteful but nevertheless accurate actions of the despot.
It totally ignores and contradicts any themes it may present, so the story is just really really dull.
The story intertwines with themes from Shakespeare's play: King Lear, but never succeeds in capturing the audience and making them care.
The common themes of blaxploitation like racism, oppression and fighting for the integrity of your community are outlined so simplistically/shallowly.
The gay, transsexual, and other gender-bender themes are rather disturbing, particularly when the child is involved.
There's also a problem of making a B movie with such radical themes ( Quite ironic that Siegel would later make DIRTY HARRY where the only good criminal is a dead one ) and that is the cast isn't very good with Emile Meyer as the warder being especially irritating in his performance .
That's because of the outdated style of acting and the pathetic way its hackneyed themes are visualised.
Although it tries to represent "civilised warfare" in the form of sport, science, trade and other forms of competition, it lacks the global scope and even the coherently developed themes of its predecessors.
Some are notable, but this urbanized version, that injects the tired old racism themes, just flat out stinks.
You would think that by "stealing" themes and images from a funnier film, your own film would at least be able to generate a giggle or two.
Tripe stereotypes and themes not appropriate for children.
In their place is tedious exposition on themes of Christian end of times and a trite story of a modern Jesus in a quandary, packaged in a trying-to-be-hip modern world where everyone looks like someone out of a Hal Hartley movie.
His works' themes were sex, death, redemption, above all, finding the sacred within the profane.
John Knowles modern masterpiece, A Separate Peace, are one of many subtle, and subtly is the watch word, themes of love, hate, jealously, denial and regret.
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