A View From the Porch
By MARIO NAVES
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Slowly, slowly, “The Passenger” (1975) drives Jack Nicholson all over the map with a trunk full of ambiguity in tow. He plays Locke, a journalist gathering documentary footage in deepest post-colonial Africa. When his hotel mate, a mysterious British businessman, drops dead from a heart attack, Locke assumes his identity and embarks on the road to nowhere, pausing en route for a sequence of inscrutably metaphoric engagements with Euro-formalist tableaux.
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|Slowly, slowly, “The Passenger” (1975) drives Jack Nicholson all over the map with a trunk full of ambiguity in tow. He plays Locke, a journalist gathering documentary footage in deepest post-colonial Africa. When his hotel mate, a mysterious British businessman, drops dead from a heart attack, Locke assumes his identity and embarks on the road to nowhere, pausing en route for a sequence of inscrutably metaphoric engagements with Euro-formalist tableaux.
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