GRGR(6) - Ep. 15 Reader Dissonance.

[Richard Romeo]

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>On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Gary Thompson wrote:
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> > I was close to shouting at Tom Cruise last night not
> > to go into that big house with the limos in front, myself. (A couple of
> > Pynchonian resonances in _Eyes Wide Shut_, starting with the setting in
> > (near?) Glen Cove.) I think that involvement's a measure of our
> > engagement with the text, and acquired critical distance comes with a
> > cost.
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>I got totally involved in the mess Tom Cruise got himself into, racking my
>brains for an answer as how to get free from the evil conspiracy--in a way
>inconceivable with regard to anything or anyone in GR. Of course "Eyes
>Wide Shut" rates only about a C minus for humor and intellectual content
>with long sequences that seemed actually boring whereas we remine
>GR continually for nuggets of gold.
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>The film technique did seem excellent. Enjoyed it. Noticed some
>in the audience were criticizing it going out.
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>			P.
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me, i think it more in line w/ Fowles' The Magus than anything Pynchonian.  
Overall, an OK flick.

Rich>


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