Somehow, in a way imperceptible to me, she had looked into a narrow basement and seen the whole wide West
They are signs of real physical dependency
The idea and the scene are brilliant and add to Cliffs characterization Oops And as I think back to the scene itself, and the recalls to Cliff killing his wife, I am now realizing that perhaps I am wrong and it wasnt a projection of what would happen but rather a flashback to what had happened before
Directors usually take their first plunge into the bracing and bloody, shark-infested waters of production in their mid-twenties, and there is much to be said in favour of that early immersion: the believed invincibility of youth carries many a soldier out of the trenches and into the storm of shrapnel, where some lucky and talented ones do survive and thrive (Orson Welles is eloquent on this subject)
Your mouth shows changes within weeks of starting to smoke
Thats what Im interested in