The Parallax View (1974)
The Parallax View (1974)
A Film by Alan J. Pakula
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Cover | 01:41:50 | 4,36 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps; French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Thriller
A Film by Alan J. Pakula
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Cover | 01:41:50 | 4,36 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps; French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Thriller
Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. After getting more involved in the case, Frady begins to realize that the assassination was part of a conspiracy somehow involving the Parallax Corporation, an enigmatic training institute. He then decides to enroll for the Parallax training himself to discover the truth.
IMDB
A thriller about a journalist, alerted to the mysterious deaths of witnesses to the assassination of a presidential candidate, who embarks on an investigation that reveals a nebulous conspiracy of gigantic and all-embracing scope. It sounds familiar, and refers to or overlaps a good handful of similar films, but is most relevantly tied to Klute. Where Klute was an exploration of claustrophobic anxiety, The Parallax View is inexorably agoraphobic. Its visual organisation is stunning as the journalist (Beatty) is drawn into an increasingly nightmarish world characterised by impenetrably opaque structures, a screen whited out from time to time, or meshed over with visually deceptive patterns. It is some indication of the area the film explores that in place of the self-revealing session with the analyst in Klute, The Parallax View presents us with the more insecurity-inducing questionnaire used by the mysterious Parallax Corporation for personality-testing prospective employees. Excellent performances; fascinating film.
The Parallax View (1974)
A popular senator is shot by a waiter at the Seattle Space Needle. Three years later Lee (Prentiss), a television reporter who was on the scene, goes to newspaper reporter Joe Frady (Beatty) frightened for her life. Assassination witnesses have been systematically killed, she says, and Lee knows that she's next. Frady discounts her fears as irrational paranoia, but after her supposed suicide, doubt creeps into his mind. He begins investigating the story and uncovers a huge conspiracy involving the mysterious "Parallax Corporation," a secret company that recruits assassins to eliminate troublemakers on their "list." Alan J. Pakula's taut direction maintains a neat balance between the real and the perceived; things are not what they appear to be. He presents disorienting shots and editing patterns with characters often filmed behind glass or curtains, allowing only a partial look at the whole scene.
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The most compelling aspects are of course the political and historical overtones. The fictional assassination was a deliberate attempt to suggest a possible explanation for the John F. Kennedy assassination. Using historical parallels (the photographs implying a second gunman at Dallas; the fact that many of the assassination witnesses died mysteriously in the years following 1963), Pakula created a possible, though fictional, explanation in a film steeped in American symbolism. The film was released in June 1974, after the studio had let the controversial work sit for several months. This is one of the best political thrillers of the 1970s.
The Parallax View (1974)
A gripping paranoia political thriller that should make conspiracy buffs excited and provoke even the casual viewer. It's based on the novel by Loren Singer and adroitly authored by David Giler and Lorenzo Semple, Jr.. Director Alan J. Pakula ("Klute"/"Sophie's Choice"/"All The President's Men") smartly plays it to the post-Watergate headlines dominating the news at the time and to the Kennedy assassination, and with panache stylistically films it (at times, filming behind glass or curtains so we can only get a partial look at the whole scene like the picture a photograph would give us). The Parallax View tells us the government can't be trusted and the truth can't always be seen, even when photographed. These paranoid views were all the rage in the 1970s and are probably still believed by a large portion of the American population. It's a Hollywood film that puts its best foot forward and along with Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962), are probably the best mainstream political films ever made.
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Investigative West Coast reporter Joseph Frady (Warren Beatty), for a small-time paper, gets convinced after the suspicious death of TV news reporter and ex-girlfriend Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss) that the assassination of Senator Carroll (Bill Joyce), who was running for president and slain by a waiter at the top of the Space Needle in Seattle some three years ago, was not due to a lone assassin as claimed by a government commission delegated to investigate, but by the nefarious security Parallax Corporation that has a recruiting program of undesirables to carry out the assassinations of important political figures it does not favor. Joe discovers that Lee was correct, all the eleven witnesses at the Space Needle are being systematically killed and her death, made to look like a suicide, is believed to be a homicide connected to the Carroll murder.
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This nod to the conspiracy theory of the murder of Senator Carroll is the film's way of letting us know what it thinks of the Warren Commission. The crusading reporter lets only his paternal, honest and dependable city editor, Bill Rintels (Hume Cronyn), know that he infiltrated the mysterious giant Parallax Corporation as a security person when recruited by a sinister agent (Jack Younger), as he does not trust the government law officials and instead tries to get to the bottom of the assassinations on his own without realizing how much he's in a situation way over his head. Joe will discover, in this more realistic, provocative and bleaker than usual actioner, he ain't James Bond.
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The film's most memorable and innovative scene is a montage of a five-minute training film that flashes in the dark, for the Beatty character recruit for Parallax, images and words (such as KKK, the pope, Thor; "Happiness," "love," "Mother," and "Me").Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"
The Parallax View (1974)
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