A fool says that Point Blank lacks character development. A second fool, the kind moved to disputation, hence to stating the obvious, replies that this misses the point: not just of the film’s stylishness, its color-coordinated greens and yellows, but a more basic fact of genre. Is not the film a kind of silent comedy, with Lee Marvin as its clown? It i…
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