Nashville evaluation action
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Isobel 2022-03-27 09:01:15
A satirical panorama of America with blurred boundaries between politics and entertainment, boasting multilayered plot and cogent characterization, done in unique dazzling style with remarkable improv-ensemble performances. A work of unprecedented audacity and prodigious talent.
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Lolita 2022-01-11 08:02:37
Ukiyoe, the capital of American country music in the 70s by Robert Altman. Multi-line network structure, equal treatment to dozens of characters, multi-theme narrative, political allegory, superimposed dialogue, music and campaign speeches. I miss the Kennedy family, the poetess of the car cemetery and the elephant cemetery, serial car accidents, [Easy Rider] motorcycles, amputations & striptease. you may say that I ain't free, but it don't worry me. (9.0/10)
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Wade: What's the matter with you? Ain't you gonna talk to me? Did it go all right?
Sueleen Gay: Oh, Wade.
Wade: What?
Sueleen Gay: I had to do me a striptease tonight in front of all those men... in order to get to sing at the Parthenon with Barbara Jean.
Wade: Oh, shit, Sueleen, I... That's dreadful! That's terrible, girl! I mean... I don't know how to tell you this, but I been meanin' to... you can't sing. You may as well face the fact you cannot sing. You ain't never gon' be no star. I wish you'd give it up. They gon' kill ya. They gon' tear your heart out if you keep on. They gon' walk on your soul, girl.
Sueleen Gay: What are you talkin' about?
Wade: You can't sing. Do you understand that?
Sueleen Gay: Yeah? You wanna make a bet? You wanna come to the Parthenon and watch me sing with Barbara Jean?
Wade: I am leavin' for Detroit Wednesday.
Sueleen Gay: You just come and watch, Wade.
Wade: I'm leavin' for Detroit, and if you wanna go you just come on. They gonna kill you in this town.
Sueleen Gay: Well, you come and see.
Wade: They gon' use you. You know that.
Sueleen Gay: Bye, Wade.
[Leaves]
Wade: Dumb bitch. I don't know why I stick around. She just makes me so goddamn mad I could spit.
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Hal Phillip Walker: I'm often confronted with the statement, "I don't want to get mixed up in politics." Or, "I'm tired of politics." Or, "I'm not interested." Almost as often, someone says, "I can't do anything about it anyway." Let me point out two things. Number one: all of us are equally involved with politics whether we know it or not and whether we like it or not. And number two: we can do something about it. When you pay more for an automobile than it cost Columbus to make his first voyage to America, that's politics.