Victor Morton\u2019s review of \u201cPolice, Adjective\u201d<\/a> gets the philosophical and theological heft of the movie. But I honestly wasn\u2019t perturbed by the \u201cLong Attention-Span Theater\u201d nature of the first 90% of scenes\u2013partly because Morton\u2019s review had made me expect a climax, partly bc the tension between everyday tedium and extraordinary suspense is part of the point of the movie, and partly bc the main actor is just so great. Morton says there\u2019s too much film where he just slurps soup; I remember thinking that I could watch this specific hangdog working-class antihero slurp soup for hours without getting tired.<\/p>\nFor me, the basic experience of the movie was: DEADENINGLY RAW HUMAN EXPERIENCE which is somehow still compelling to watch\u2026 do that for a really long time, and often it\u2019s funny but every time it\u2019s funny it\u2019s also cruel. The punctuation of laughter is used really well. \u2026and then suddenly HOLY CRAP DISTILLED SCENE OF POWER AND HUMILIATION AND (a)THEOLOGY.<\/p>\n
So put up with any boredom in the first part\u2013you really need it\u2013because this Jack-in-the-Box coil really is winding up to something shocking and cruel and theologically grisly.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s playing at the E Street Cinema.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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