All that blood and glass, that screeching rubber. What about the sheer waste, the sense of a civilization in a state of decay?” “What about it?” I said. “I tell them it’s not decay they are seeing but innocence. The movie breaks away from complicated human passions to show us something elemental, something fiery and loud and head-on. It’s a conservative wish-fulfillment, a yearning for naivete. We want to be artless again. We want to reverse the flow of experience, of worldliness and its responsibilities.
