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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 424494" data-attributes="member: 8">THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK (1969)[ATTACH=full]56502[/ATTACH]Aha! I found it on you-know-where, and in good picture quality.I&#039;m afraid that&#039;s where the good news ends because this film doesn&#039;t make much sense.There&#039;s no character motivation or perspective, everything is illogical or incomprehensibly vague, and this makes the story&#039;s psychological aspect very pseudo.I&#039;ve tried hard to connect the dots, to discover why these two characters needed to be in the same story.The young man pretends to be mute and it&#039;s possible that he&#039;s supposed to be underage, or at least younger than actor Michael Burns.According to the boy&#039;s sister (a most irritating character) that silent mode is something that he likes to do every now and then. End of explanation.He was in the park waiting for someone...something-something...drugs..family...not there...something. Sandy Dennis aka The Other Mia Farrow plays a spinster, or what was considered a spinster in 1969.She comes across as cold and joyless and I could interpret her way of living (the systematic social life and also her controlled, rambling speech pattern) as a coping mechanism that helps her to mute the inner voice of sadness and frustration.So, two muting characters, that&#039;s something to explore but if it happened then I failed to notice it.The story hops over to the psychological theme of possessiveness and what she&#039;s willing to sacrifice and then in the last 5 minutes it becomes yet another thing, something that looks like an attempt at grande dame guignol. The end.It&#039;s a very, very very strange film and of course I&#039;m happy that I&#039;ve been given the opportunity to watch it, but it&#039;s not very good and there&#039;s nothing ambiguous about that opinion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 424494, member: 8"] THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK (1969) [ATTACH type="full"]56502[/ATTACH] Aha! I found it on you-know-where, and in good picture quality. I'm afraid that's where the good news ends because this film doesn't make much sense. There's no character motivation or perspective, everything is illogical or incomprehensibly vague, and this makes the story's psychological aspect very pseudo. I've tried hard to connect the dots, to discover why these two characters needed to be in the same story. The young man pretends to be mute and it's possible that he's supposed to be underage, or at least younger than actor Michael Burns. According to the boy's sister (a most irritating character) that silent mode is something that he likes to do every now and then. End of explanation. He was in the park waiting for someone...something-something...drugs..family...not there...something. Sandy Dennis aka The Other Mia Farrow plays a spinster, or what was considered a spinster in 1969. She comes across as cold and joyless and I could interpret her way of living (the systematic social life and also her controlled, rambling speech pattern) as a coping mechanism that helps her to mute the inner voice of sadness and frustration. So, two muting characters, that's something to explore but if it happened then I failed to notice it. The story hops over to the psychological theme of possessiveness and what she's willing to sacrifice and then in the last 5 minutes it becomes yet another thing, something that looks like an attempt at grande dame guignol. The end. It's a very, very very strange film and of course I'm happy that I've been given the opportunity to watch it, but it's not very good and there's nothing ambiguous about that opinion. [/QUOTE]

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