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The latest from avant-garde British director Peter Greenaway ( The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ) elicits a familiar critique: It's judged a visual knockout but pretentious as hell.
F&H also defines gun as a `thief.
In more or less linear fashion, it tells the story of a violent thief, Porter (Mel Gibson), who, left for dead after a double-cross, re-emerges with an implacable determination to avenge himself on his ex-partner, Val (Gregg Henry), and reclaim some $70,000 that is rightfully his--rightfully in the sense that he's the one who actually stole it.
I once had an L.A. cop boast to me how he had apprehended a car thief by simply pulling over a black man driving a Toyota with a Grateful Dead bumper sticker.
I was, and still am, captivated by “Babies cry for liquor an' the birds sing bass,” and in the arrogance of my youth, I was certain that nobody else on the airfield either knew or cared who Bessie Smith was, nor would any other G.I. be enchanted by basso birds, so I turned thief.