Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.
"Goodbye, Darling" was an example of seventies "Healthy Realism" but with an unprecedented frankness. It starts with the ingenuous moral: "People lie Ah-lang are a thing of the past, just like pedicabs and illegal buildings." If the film tries not to indulge Ah-lang with a single redeeming quality, his is a compelling figure nonetheless: a symbol of blind, frusterated protest against a society in which he has no place. In hsi ovstinate truculence lises a certain dignity, that of a wild beast. Is he to blame if he is not domesticable? If his habitat is disappearing along with the pedicabs and illegal buildings of a modernizing Taiwan?
