the total humorlessness of the house style makes the project hard to take seriously even in single installments and after more than one even the most upstanding viewer may find themselves longing for some profitable mayhem committed with impunity. --Hahaha, I totally feel this!
for nothing more than sticking it to the law and order that threw him off freight trains and pinched him for vagrancy and never kept him from starving. --and this. Curse you, meaningless law-and-order!
the go-for-broke gruesomeness with which Joe turns the spark-splashing acetylene on his extortionist --On the other hand: Eeep!
The problem is that in between these two points of hard-boiled interest come forty minutes of informercial for the American penal system Oh God, preserve me.
As explained by the superintendent who shares her movie's scorn for subtext, "You're here to be helped—although you don't seem to realize it." --TEXT AND SUPERTEXT ONLY, BABY.
Such a relief, don't you just want to throw a brick? --Laughing and laughing.
Thank you so much for this American example of rehabilitation and reeducation and the iron beneficence of the state. Now how about seeing to that hunger problem, eh, most just and most righteous state?
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for nothing more than sticking it to the law and order that threw him off freight trains and pinched him for vagrancy and never kept him from starving. --and this. Curse you, meaningless law-and-order!
the go-for-broke gruesomeness with which Joe turns the spark-splashing acetylene on his extortionist --On the other hand: Eeep!
The problem is that in between these two points of hard-boiled interest come forty minutes of informercial for the American penal system Oh God, preserve me.
As explained by the superintendent who shares her movie's scorn for subtext, "You're here to be helped—although you don't seem to realize it." --TEXT AND SUPERTEXT ONLY, BABY.
Such a relief, don't you just want to throw a brick? --Laughing and laughing.
Thank you so much for this American example of rehabilitation and reeducation and the iron beneficence of the state. Now how about seeing to that hunger problem, eh, most just and most righteous state?