With grand-standing tactics and Commie-baiting witch-hunting delivered from the audience, "Joe McCarthy-ish" Senator IWith grand-standing tactics and Commie-baiting witch-hunting delivered from the audience, "Joe McCarthy-ish" Senator Iselin stands - in the background - and delivers bombastic, arbitrary rantings about the Secretary"s conclusions, as his manipulative, domineering wife in the foreground - who has fed her words into her puppet husband and is the power behind the scenes - watches his diminutive image on a live TV monitor next to her [the same events are simultaneously displayed from different perspectives].The 111 minute arthouse film was set in mid-60s London, a locale fairly unfamiliar to the director, although well known at he time for its trends including the Beatles (and their mop-head hair-styles), stick-thin fashion model Twiggy, and the mod styles at Carnaby Street.The sight of Luthor"s wigs in his bedroom"s dressing room somehow tipped her off - and she was confronted by the bathrobed villain brushing his teeth in the hallway as the ship launched.But suddenly, they were thrown to the ground and scared off, and he heard whispering voices and echoing shrieks.He had a conversation with Mickey in which he was encouraged and offered strength: "Well, if you wasn"t here, I probably wouldn"t be alive today.Detail
