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‘Splatter’ film is pointless
harsh world ruled by a beautiful
but deadly nature.
Highlighted by rich, striking
photography shot almost ex
clusively in natural light, this
looks like no other film of its
kind and has a power and inten
sity of enormous magnitude.
They arise from the subtle script
and low-key but stylish
direction.
It plays on a double bill with
“Boat People,” the story of the
Southeast Asian boat people
before they get on the boat. I
have mixed feelings about this
film. Though it is powerful and
disturbing with moments of real
poignancy, overall it’s more
shocking than subtle, relying on
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sensational violence and
brutality for impact.
1 don’t doubt the authenticity
of director Ann Hui’s portrayal
of life in Vietnam after the '75
revolution, but 1 would prefer to
see the political subtlety
displayed in films such as “The
Mission,” an underrated film
that played earlier at the
festival.
This double feature ends this
Thursday so I urge you to make
the time to see “Narayama,”
and to stick around for "Boat
People” if you can. Whether or
not you agree with its politics, I
suspect you will not leave the
theater unchallenged.
By Sean Axmaker
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When'8 the last time you
heard this one? Charles Bronson
plays a professional assassin
after a criminal so evil and
sadistic that you thank God for
vigilante justice.
Well, it’s here again, and this
time it's called “The Evil That
Men Do." The major difference
between this and Bronson’s
previous outings, besides a
higher degree of blood and
gore, is an international flavor.
The bad guy is a professional
torturer known as the Doctor
who hires himself out to small
Latin American dictators. How
did he get on Bronson’s bad
side? By doing away with one of
his friends, a freedom-loving
journalist critical of the Doctor’s
practice.
The Bronson character is
named Holland in this film, and
he’s retired and living on a
peaceful desert island. The
brutal death of his friend pulls
him back for one more job,
however, which he performs
gratis — out of the goodness of
his heart. Yes, it’s comforting to
know that there are still aveng
ing angels like Holland around,
with a sawed-off shotgun in one
hand and a high-caliber
revolver in the other, leaving a
trail of corpses behind him on
his mission of glory.
‘‘The Evil That Men Do” is a
poor film even by Bronson’s
standards. He simply walks
through his part and director J.
Lee Thompson adds no style to
the picture. The script is full of
particularly bad dialogue and
writers David Lee Henry and
John Crowther have Holland
pull some real boners.
The first moment he lays eyes
on the Doctor and the en
tourage, he is caught staring at
them for a full minute at the
very least. In addition, he
agrees to let an “emotional”
female tag along to the most
dangerous spots knowing full
well the danger he is letting her
into and the problems she could
cause him in a tight situation.
All this film has going for it is
a suave performance from
Joseph Maher as the cool,
calculating Doctor. Otherwise
the picture is just another poor
ly made sensationalistic “splat
ter” film, filled with excessive
gore, sadistic violence and one
totally gratuitous moment of
full female frontal nudity. If it
wasn’t for Bronson's name, this
would just be another exploita
tion flick filling the second bill
at drive-ins.
It plays at Cinema World and
at the Eugene Drive-In.
Also Playing: This week only,
Cinema 7 is playing one of the
most beautiful and subtle films
to grace Eugene screens all year.
The film is called “The
Ballad Of Narayama,” and it’s
about a culture and world view
totally alien to our way of think
ing. Set in rural Japan a hun
dred years ago, “Narayama" ex
plores the lives of one family
and how they live and die in the
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