ECFowler (e.c.fowler@worldnet.att.net)
Mon, 6 Sep 1999 02:29:06 -0400
Observations from a newcomer to the genre upon reading PART
and TSHDT. It is interesting how Caine gives his characters a
proletarian bent, but ultimately they are just evil shits. I
love the way the writing is short and clipped; very craftful,
I take it. And within the genre setting there is a very not
so subtle theme regarding obsession. In fact, wasn't there an
early Italian neo-realist film, early thrities called
Ossessione, based on PART?
Was McCoy doing a DosPassos parody/homage with the sentencing
sequence dividing the chapters? Unlike PART, in this one
sexual obsession is not here...just an obsession with getting
out of straight life, and hit it big in the movies. His
vengeance with her for stealing his dream is a little
predictable, but not obnoxious.
Am in the middle of Thieves Like Us. Does this title have
anything to do with the great song by New Order of several
years back?
Tribe
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