"August: Osage County" and T.S. Eliot
This is hardly a review (I wouldn't need to see the film again), but I thought I'd reproduce Eliot's "The Hollow Men" (Sam Shepard quotes from it at least twice: Life is very long and Here we go round the prickly pear... ). *** The Hollow Men Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us—if at all—not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. II Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging