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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Quick review of "QuickSilver" (mild spoilers)
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Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 00:45:23 EST
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Quicksilver leaves unanswered questions.  The lead character goes from being a
very successful stock broker to being a bicycle delivery person.  He has a
girlfriend.  Was she with him through his career change or did he meet her
later?  Do they live together, or does she just practice dancing at his place
because he has a lot of empty space in his apartment?  Do they break up during
the movie, or does she get captured by aliens?

Part of a successful movie is making you care about what happens to the charac-
ters, even the less important ones.  When they get you to care, and then just
leave you hanging, it takes something away from it all.

The girlfriend is a dancer.  However, the only time we see her outside the
apartment is when she is (obviously at ease) at an art gallery showing. ???

This is all petty details having nothing to do with the main part of the film,
but that's just the kind of mood I'm in.

The female lead (not the girlfriend mentioned above) gets a syndrome familiar
to most horror-movie buffs towards the end of this movie.  The dreaded
"backwards walking wimpy woman syndrome" (BW3 for short).  A normally street-
wise human being who handles herself very well earlier, starts doing very dumb
things later on that are out of character.  ("Let's see, the axe murderer is 
behind this door, so I'll turn out all the lights and walk backward through
the doorway while shrieking."  Makes sense to me.)  In this instance, she is
being stalked by someone out to kill her.  She is with a group of male friends
who are defending her.  Naturally, she runs into the dark streets alone so
the murderer has a better chance of catching her.  You want to scream at her,
"WAKE UP, IDIOT!"

The movie does well with the issue of having to face your inner demons, fears, 
and previous failures in order to get ahead.  Sometimes you can rationalize
being happy in a situation that's safe, but all you are really doing sn tread-
ing water.  (Great line from the film:  I thought only us Jews do guilt.)

My main flame is for the idiots who pick which scenes to put in the previews.
They give away a key plot element in the ones I've seen on TV.  (Car falling
off unfinished bridge.)  Obnoxious and unneeded.

Worth the $4.75.
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