Sunday 27 April 2014

Heart Burn

(1986)

RATING:60%
FORMAT:DVD

Living Inside a Ping-Pong Ball

Superficial film by Whites about superficial Whites and their superficial culture.

There is no analysis here as to why Whites have the highest divorce rates nor what to do about this. Simply the unstated ethnocentric implication that such problems are true for all cultures and that, therefore, no solution need be found.

An elliptical narrative reveals the essentially perfunctory nature of the plot - as if checkboxes are being ticked-off on a shopping-list of plot points. Being good at description and observation but poor on insight and explanation emphasizes the White whining that is really going on underneath this mediocre and self-pitying work.

Greats, NICHOLSON and STREEP, do the best they can with weak material and make a convincing married couple. Not as good as Terms of Endearment or even The Big Chill.

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