The subject is illusion and reality and the blurred borderline between those states, and the lesson is conducted at an easy introductory level, geared perhaps for the audience of Hooper: Illusion and Reality Made Simple. The smarty-pants treatment of this matter is pretty strictly limited to what we might agree to call the Magic of Movies, a limitation brought about by the movie-within-a-movie plot format, as well as by director Richard Rush's sadistic compulsion to mislead, outfox, and double-cross the viewer by means of a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't visual style. Rush never can, or anyway never does, suspend his viewers in a state of uncertainty for longer than it takes to set them up for a cheap surprise. And of those there are plenty. With Peter O'Toole, Barbara Hershey, and Steve Railsback. (1980) — Duncan Shepherd
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