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Deaf Major
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A 17 year old deaf girl runs away to Haight-Ashbury,
San Francisco in search of her missing brother. On its busy
streets she stands in the middle of the road (as though trying to
prove that deaf does mean dumb). When a car nearly hits her she says
"I'm deaf". While the car driver's wife sighs "poor little
thing". Is this what is called character definition then we're
off to a bad start.
Going into a cafe she reads lips and speaks
perfectly so you can kick reality out of the window. In fact
the clichés run as tall as sunflowers. Deafness is clearly
just a novelty factor. It's pot and flowers and VW buses
painted all over in hippy style. But then you might not even
survive the dreadful music.
Strasberg simply can't act (despite
her famous name). In true spaced-out fashion there is no real
story and less of a plot. With the added bonus of Bruce Dern
playing the brother who turns up looking like Christ.
A truly
dreadful and pretentious film with really awful false
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