movie review
‘tattoo’ is boring and tedious
Maud Adams becomes a living canvas for an ancient artform
practiced by Bruce Dern, a tattoo artist who becomes obsessed
with her
By EVA SHROYER
For th* Emerald
‘‘Tattoo,’’ starring Bruce
Dern and Maud Adams, fails to
live up to its potential of being a
sexy, mysterious thriller Instead it
is a boring, tedious film full of
flaws
Dern plays the role of an
obsessed man with a shadowed
past, as he did in “Coming
Home”, “Family Plot,” and
‘‘Black Sunday He is a tattoo
artist in a run-down section of
Hoboken, N.J and he uses his
body as a canvas
Although he is capable of
delicate, intricate art, most of his
work is the usual array of hearts,
flowers and embarassingly ex
plicit nudes
By some miracle, he is hired
by a Manhattan fashion magazine
to paint fake tattoos on a few
models for an upcoming feature
One of the models, played by
Maud Adams, just happens to be
the object of his idolatry These
remarkable coincidences go un
explained, and are very hard to
swallow
She, by another screenwrit
ing miracle, becomes fond of him,
despite his incredibly obnoxious
behavior
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One condition tor member
ship that sannyasin-critics point
out is that members must give all
their possessions to the sect
"M you have possessions you
can keep them or give them to the
ranch,” says Nirmal ‘ Some peo
ple still have cars and bank ac
counts but others come to the
commune with no money."
Members came from many dif
ferent countries to Poona and
have now migrated to Oregon
However, about 80 percent of the
disciples at Rajneeshpuram are
Americans, commune officials
claim
Commune life is not so different
than the world outside its borders
in some respects Although no
meat is served at the ranch, other
sannyasins do eat meat, members
say Drugs are not permitted on
the ranch, but beer kegs wait for
the workers at the end of each
long day
The reasons for joining the
group are as diverse as the people
themselves
"I was traveling and doing
meditation and it was the next
thing to do," says Nirmal, a
woman in her early 30s from eas
tern Canada who has been with
the group for eight years "You
take it one step at a time ”
For others, it is a way to change
Recycle
the world by first changing your
self, they say
"I was into Greenpeace and
the environment, but I felt
something was missing," says
Michael, a bearded disciple from
Vancouver, Washington "I
realized that I had to change my
self and then everywhere I go I'll
change things Before that I was
just a Band-aid."
Although the disciples speak of
their guru with the utmost respect,
his actions are not endearing him
to the Antelope townspeople Se
cluded from the rest of the ranch
and its people with his large
mobile home and well-kept lawn,
he enjoys racing in one of his two
powder blue Rolls Royce every so
often But he terrorizes other
drivers. Antelopers claim
He has received one ticket, run
into a cement truck and per
iodically dumps the vehicle in a
ditch so seriously that it requires a
wrecker to pull him out, one An
telope woman says
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iac down the road," complains
McGreer "I have a friend who has
driven off the road when he came
barreling down the center line "
How long the guru will continue
to live in Rajneeshpuram remains
to be seen since he has followers
totalling 200.000 in centers in 40
countries to visit
‘ We asked him to come as our
guest and it's entirely up to him
whether he wants to stay or not,"
says Shanti B
Followers do not see much of
the Bhagwan, however, as he is
convalescing in his trailer home
from asthma, diabetes and back
trouble and only communicates to
them through "heart-to-heart"
discussions, they say
You’d better
look out,
you’d better
think twice.
You can
read about
who’s naughty
and nice...
noel
notes
are coming
to town
Dec. 11.
Dern kidnaps Adams mid
way through the film and takes
her to his secluded beach house
For the next hour of the movie he
waits on his victim by day and
tattoos her by night.
Adam’s actions also are
strange She finds peculiar ways
of attempting to escape and even
to murder him But even the most
painfully obvious ones are
noticeable only by the audience.
Dern is a marvelous actor, in
his own odd way. As Karl Kinsky
he is as mad as he has ever been.
His character is believable: he is
truly sorry when apologetic, yet
convincingly crazy otherwise.
Adams, however, is wooden
and awkward, as though this were
her first screen appearance,
which is not the case The role is
not a demanding one, the char
acter is almost void of personality,
but Adams fails noneth less
Perhaps she simply was un
inspired. As an ex-model, she has
all the physical qualities for the
part. Her image clashes nicely
with Dern's which is bland and
morose - a dark cloud throughout
the movie.
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