Unit 6
In my opinion
Introduction I

For me, any film by writer director David Mamet is something to say that. His vastly under-rated second film 'Things change' starring Don Ameche ... ...tickle Mamet man Joe Mantegna is currently experiencing revival. It's a story of a lonely New York Italian shoe repairer Don Ameche who bearing a striking similarity to a member of a New York mob is approaching us to [bad word] his devil and take the rap for murder. His promised award is a fishing boat of his dreams when he thought a due time to jaw. Like a pump, your views on 'Things change'.

Well, I'm stock of saying I share your adorations of Mamet's work. To me, he's a micro-poetry myths, and this film is not exception. It's a ... to moving (miving) story ... crafted with quick magnificent acting, by both Ameche and Montagna.

Yes, and David Mamet also Peter's ... is also a very American duality between hardness and sensitivity which is uncalled feminist film.

Yes, very much subyle in fact. You could say that he constantly reviled his male leads into two types: the ... figure who has to take it off more of decision in this film that Don Ameche character and a flash guy who talks big always attracts the star actor Al Pachino as ... and Joe Mantegna as the ... monster here, in "Things change'. I think, the reason quite a film is so good, so powerful lies in the dynamics of the relationship between these two protagonists.

... Can I bring unit of this point? powerful film? I suppose it is. I can deny that it has a rather unusual of intensity and tulip certainly have presence. My reservation is that the film is ... absence of any significant female character which is unfortunately save a list.

Presumably this is part of a realism. Organized crime is a men's world where women a few (disadorement)... practical providers ... exquisite portrayal of a housekeeper cook in Chicago.

So, you'd say that all at all the film [bad word] (afenty) in terms of its organization.

Yes...

Well, I'm afraid, I can except that quite (fringhtly) some of the minor roles with definitely phoney and in the case of Julia Masters the depicting boarding on Caricature with a capital C, absolutely unconvincing at times.

Hmm, you might have to agree to differ there. But going up to Michael's point, all that Mamet write too many about men, he's not what he would call him matcher dramatist drama.

No, that's [bad word]  And I certainly like the way he bored out the fray eagle behind the bravado in the Joe Mantegna's part. That was clever. He pulled it out well. But the fact remains that this is a film about men and as such I couldn't respond within a wholly positive way.

And what is the female concentrating in the title itself? "Things change".

Well, actually, that for me is the finishing touch. Cause the film has so many settle shifts and violences all of which are very convincing and [bad word]  What are the things I remember most vividly is a return from that fishing trip, where you have two men from very different walks of life standing on a jetty rouses ... up and anything else striped away. But of course, as the title says, 'things change'. big man returns to his house and his row within organized crime while the little man has to meet his own fate.

Not in time as you might expect perhaps, but we mustn't reveal a final delightful twist in the plot. Anna Realton, Michael Pont, Thank you. "Things change" is back on general release for a limited period. Don't miss it.