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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 614468" data-attributes="member: 1211">That opening frame with Lemmon rolling around his eye had me questioning it, but then it quickly hooked me.  The whole opening bedroom sequence was amazing.  A movie like this would never be made today, but even a scene like that, though feeling familiar for the time, isn't something they'd bother with now either.  I love patient character studies.  A pretty dark movie for Jack Gilford's involvement too.  I don't watch movies from that era much.  The reminder of how grimy and gritty film production was is great and had me wanting to follow it with a music that feels urbanly filthy.free streaming on Pluto, for those interested.</blockquote>