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STILL NOT VERY INTERESTING

Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was

Morgan / Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)

with David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave in her first film role.

I saw this when it first came out forty years ago—can you believe it?

I didn't much like it then and I liked it less this time.

Morgan wants his wife back and she is ambivalent; full of approach-avoidance behavior. Maddening.

Morgan is a red diaper baby born into a Marxist family. He has left the family but not arrived anywhere else.

It is about non-conformity or perhaps about class or maybe it is about wanting the inaccessible.

There were a lot of good things that came out of the culture of the of the sixties. Some of them were films. This is not one of them.

It just looks silly now.

There are amusing moments but, overall, it is a near waste of time.

While we were watching some people came to the door. They were conducting a census to find if we knew of any deaf people in the neighborhood.

The woman signed as she talked. Two others stood mute.

How odd; as bizarre as the film! What a counterpoint.

Anyway, I didn't even put the movie on 'pause' as I went to the door.

When I returned, not much had happened; mostly the same antics.

Give this a 2 out of Netflix5. It is not awful awful. It is just annoying to watch the same shit happen over and over.

Some nice cinematic effects save it from the disgrace of being the first '1' I have given for a long while.