About half way into the picture, and after seeing Theresa's Janis Joplin poster on the wall enough times, I started wondering to myself, 'Is she going to wind up dead"? That seemed to be the path Diane Keaton's character was on, a descent into a self inflicted depravity that eventually spiraled out of control with her final singles bar encounter. Theresa telegraphs her eventual fate by stating at one point that "I don't believe in a future", as her father (Richard Kiley) rails against her free-wheeling lifestyle. The picture uniquely contrasts Theresa's outwardly responsible life as a teacher of deaf children with her nightly cruising of the bar scene looking for the next more challenging high.
With a Seventies backdrop the picture is somewhat dated, though it accurately captures some of the more depressing aspects of the era, the increasing emergence of meaningless relationships, the ease of getting and using social drugs like pot and cocaine, and probably the worst of all, disco music. Very much a downer. I did get a kick though out of the not so subtle reference to Theresa's reading material, a copy of The Godfather, and Richard Gere's response to seeing the movie. Since he mentioned Al Pacino, I wonder why he didn't notice Theresa's striking resemblance to Kay Adams.
With a Seventies backdrop the picture is somewhat dated, though it accurately captures some of the more depressing aspects of the era, the increasing emergence of meaningless relationships, the ease of getting and using social drugs like pot and cocaine, and probably the worst of all, disco music. Very much a downer. I did get a kick though out of the not so subtle reference to Theresa's reading material, a copy of The Godfather, and Richard Gere's response to seeing the movie. Since he mentioned Al Pacino, I wonder why he didn't notice Theresa's striking resemblance to Kay Adams.