The Plot…<\/strong><\/p>\nJoe Frady (Beatty) is a newspaper man covering presidential candidate Charles Carroll’s press conference. Frady’s girlfriend, television reporter Lee Carter (Prentiss) is also covering the event when a gunman shoots and kills Carroll.\u00a0 An investigation determines that the gunman acted alone.<\/p>\n
Three years later, Joe’s ex-girlfriend, Lee, shows up terrified.\u00a0 Six witnesses to the Carroll assassination have died under mysterious circumstances. Lee believes that she will be next.\u00a0 Joe tries to calm her and says that she’s over-reacting.\u00a0 Yes, the witnesses died and some were in unusual circumstances, but all could be explained.\u00a0 When Lee turns up dead of an overdose, Joe decides to do an investigation of his own.\u00a0 Soon enough (and after some attempts on his life), Joe discovers an organization named the Parallax Corporation that he believes recruits assassins.\u00a0 Joe decides to infiltrate the company and bring them down.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Parallax View<\/em> is definitely a product of its time.\u00a0 Director Pakula lets scenes play out.\u00a0 I enjoyed the long, shots and pace, which may be too slow for many of today’s audience members.\u00a0 Pakula is joined by a cast of powerhouse actors: Beatty, Prentis, Daniels, Cronyn and McKinney.<\/p>\nI would have liked The Parallax View<\/em> better if I cared more about Joe Frady.\u00a0 When his ex-girlfriend comes to him scared out of her mind and convinced she is the next target of professional assassins, Joe displays little sympathy.\u00a0 Then she turns up dead and Joe’s biggest concern is to take up her story.<\/p>\nJoe’s plan to infiltrate a corporation of professional assassins is pretty weak.\u00a0 The fact that they’ve successfully completed hits on Presidential candidates and those who know too much doesn’t factor into Joe’s thinking.\u00a0 I had problems with Joe’s actions when he discovers a bomb is on his flight.\u00a0 Joe also under-reacts when the “corporation” discovers he’s been lying to them.\u00a0 There are other things I could nit pick, but the truth of the matter is that the direction by Alan J. Pakula is entertaining enough that I went with the flow,<\/p>\n
The Parallax View<\/em> <\/strong><\/em>earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\")
<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z111822zview_parallaxview2.png\")
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Parallax View (1974) Director:\u00a0 Alan J. Pakula Screenplay:\u00a0 David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr. based on The Parallax View by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31051,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30956\/revisions\/31051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z111822zview_parallaxview.png\")
<\/p>\n