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Josh Watkins
28Mar12
A Don DeLillo novel stripped of its humanity and given a righteous car chase. hella good.
john saenz
2Feb12
How could anyone give a hoot about a story or a plot when you have brilliant cinematographic writing such as this? I mean really... this is what film really is! something you can see and this film really understood that. Sit back and enjoy the power of the moving visuals.
Christofer Pierson
7Jun11
Mother. Father. Home. God. Country. Enemy. Did Madison Avenue inspire the film within a film, or vice versa?
Steve Macfarlane
10Mar11
Pakula's most aesthetically satisfying movie, and most inert ideologically. The story/script is bupkis, but the textures given to the scenarios - especially in the last 45 minutes - comprise an unforgettable visual experience.
Reginald Healer Marcellin
20Jan11
Some great visuals and mood, but there's little emotional connection with the main character. He's strangely detached.
Michael Gildea
12Aug10
The Parallax View was stunning. Beatty was great but Pakula's direction steals the show. I'm glad the movie didn't go in the goofy chase direction I was expecting and the last 20 minutes alone were the absolute antithesis of what I'd anticipated. Sure the plot's kind of laughable but Pakula made it frightening. Overall, astonishingly fantastic.
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Peacekeeper
5May10
Ridiculous plot? Lost because you were bored? Ending predictable? It seems OKI has no feel for how, when and why the film was made: it surely was not meant for a jaded post-modernist 2010 audient. The Parallax View brilliantly captures a terrifying, depressing time in American society and its politics. Warren Beatty excels (once again) in playing a dimwitted character in over his head, and using his innate arrogance to offset this. Besides being a great showcase for music and cinematography the movie also makes a point a lot of people miss: the Parallax Corporation is an organization for hire who themselves don't care about the ideology as far as the political end is concerned, they only assassinate because they're paid for the job. The people who've hired Parallax obviously have an agenda for political means. By carefully considering the ways in murdering people both real targets and witnesses, it creates an environment of fear and confusion. No matter how many die, and in what way: the aim is instability, and paving the way for a specific kind of social and political climate anno 1974.
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oki
25Mar10
disappointing. ridiculous plot, and at some point I was lost because I was too bored to keep track...but the ending was still predictable. Never cared about Warren Beatty's character or anyone else in the film. Some nice shots. The famous brainwashing sequence made me laugh, it looks very dated.
S Campbell
16Feb10
The second film in the directors paranoia films gives Warren Beatty a good role and has Gordon Willis give his usual dark touch to the film . A cold 70s masterpiece
Spencer Draper
31Jan10
Not as good as one is lead to think. Very good premise, but everything just doesn't ever hold interest. Better remembered for the idea, paranoia, and ending than anything else. (Although some promos have reminded me of the infamous brainwash reel from this film.) See it if you can because the film has gone out of print.
