The deliberate killing of the middle class

Athena 2021-11-22 18:54:20

In this quasi-one-act play, Polanski returns to an original dramatic form:

Imagine putting two people/people with very different values ​​in a room together. What good things will there be to watch?

As the exit of the closed space where the story takes place, the scene of the corridor leading to the elevator plays the role of plot segmentation.

The main characters are here two in and two out, and the audience's strings have just loosened and tightened. Every time the two sides walked to the elevator entrance, a new contradiction arose, pushing the contradiction to a new high.

On the surface, it seems that every time the good old man Michael offered to drink some coffee and wine to save the situation, and Allen unconsciously accepted the good intentions that allowed the story to continue. In fact, it was the middle-class rationality of both sides that allowed the values. The war was maintained.

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Extended Reading
  • Franco 2021-11-22 18:54:20

    A short and squishy indoor drama, so ridiculous that I didn't think it was produced by Polanski, to the point where it was produced by Woody Allen. Adapted from a play that won a Tony Award. Needless to say, the screenplay is excellent. Several actors who have become fine performers are very wonderful together. The whole film is performed in a room without the slightest coldness. The burden is one by one, word by word. Beads, neat and tidy, hearty. ★★★★

  • Kacie 2021-11-22 18:54:20

    The cell phone soaked in the water is intact, the abandoned hamster is alive and moisturized, and the children who have been fighting are playing as before. It turns out that the more we care about the little things, the less we take us seriously. The trivialities in life are nothing like this.

Carnage quotes

  • Alan Cowan: Penelope, I believe in the god of carnage. The god whose rule's been unchallenged since time immemorial.

  • Nancy Cowan: I've got a John Wayne idea of manhood, too. What is it he had? A Colt .45. Something that empties a room. Any man that doesn't have those loner vibes just doesn't come off as having any substance.