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Homecoming- hmmm...

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In Reply to: RE: Do you like Pinter? posted by Victor Khomenko on November 12, 2020 at 07:55:42

I just watched The Homecoming on Criterion. I was both intrigued and irritated. My first exposure to Pinter. Early on, I saw that this is one of those movies where people don't talk like people but like characters. OK, that can work. Everyone in the family is either passively aggressive or actively aggressive virtually throughout. They lack any sort of normal human boundaries, Lenny, for example, talking about his urge to kill a woman to someone he just met, just casual conversation. And the returning brother maintains all those family characteristics, and his wife, just meeting the family, adopts them quickly and naturally.

There is some wickedly funny dialogue and behavior. It was all quite claustrophobic, inside a shabby house with those few unpleasant people. But the dialogue kept my interest throughout. I will probably watch it again.

I watched this mainly because of a book The Best Movie You've Never Seen, in which Neil Labute recommended this as his neglected classic and described all the reasons he loves it.

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