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a "finely produced, modest drama" that transcends "both naturalistic concentration on an individual history and abstract sociological discourse about a big social problem." Shebib's film perfectly exemplifies the
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in 1983, in its eighth season. Like his predecessors, he emphasised the role of the series as an honest look at problems in
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general human project of achieving command over the world" and notes that the film "displays a number of Shebib's authorial markings" in that his films are often about loners.
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