Saw #Hud. Once again, script & performance are most of the battle. Add the sure blocking, the sculpted, near-Eisensteinian images …
… (treMENdous work by Ritt/Wong Howe), & you’ve got some knockout of a movie.
#Hud. The appearance, the exploration of previously proscribed attitudes & motivations & behaviours is really refreshing …
… People worry about inappropriate subject matter, or about inappropriate treatment of valid subjects. Very fair! …
… Still, are we adults, or are we not? For all the whirlwinds, this kind of film was needed & necessary, & made the cinema deeper & better.