Long shot with music


How often during this movie did you see a long shot of two people walking in a forrest, a field, on a beach with "Come Saturday Morning" on the soundtrack?

This film is not slow-moving....it's agonizingly slow moving. More importantly, for a movie basically about just two people, we never learn a single thing about them from beginning to end. The film could have easily ended at any point and everyone would say it's a non satisfying ambiguous ending.

Since it was made in that era it reminded me too much of "The Graduate", "Carnel Knowledge", and "Goodbye Columbus"

It was clear that Liza Minelli took the role (must have been her first) to show how well she could do as an actress. She must have about 30 times more dialogue than the guy and could have been interesting if the film wasn't put together so haphazardly.

Only...I seem to remember when it came out there was this big controversy about actually seeing Liza nude in the movie, which was a big deal back then. She seemed alot thinner than the way she looks today but just as strange.

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I agree with your points about the film being slow-moving, about it being over-montaged, and about her talking more than him, but it's not exactly true that "we never learn a single thing about them from beginning to end". The film feels very deliberately put together, whatever it's flaws. And though there is a stripping scene, we don't actually see Liza Minelli nude in the film.

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