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On the opposite side of the road a lane leads to the site of the prison where thousands of people were tortured and executed between 1933 and 1945, including many of the officers involved in the Stauffenberg plot.
The glimpse it gives into the manic highs and lows of female adolescent friendship as seen through a tortured trio of friends in the twilight of Communist Poland is remarkably vivid--full of symbolism, magic realism, and fairy-tale qualities--but most reviewers call the book as a whole a near miss.
Anyone who had been stretched on this legal rack for so long would do anything to prevent the next guy from being similarly tortured.
Critics agree that this film is a sorry imitation of the original: "as generic in every aspect as Brian De Palma's original was inventive" (Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety ). The plot is the same (tortured telekinetic teen starts bloodbath when humiliated), but this time it's just "campy inanity" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ) with none of the original's terrifying flair.
Through them--plus a cache of invisible-ink letters Maggs writes to Phipps in order to acquaint the protégé with his protector--we look into Maggs' tortured soul, and witness an Oates in all but tumescent pursuit of Maggs' life story, which he will exploit for his next best seller.