MooPig Movie Reviews: "Sleeper [1973]"

Imagine our future
as seen in this
Woody Allen suture
Apes don't read philosophy
so each one is
out for one's self ...
... could be,
our future was sunny
back when,
Woody Allen was funny.

by Pat Darnell

It was late
one early night
we were watching
"Sleeper" on the tube--
you know, with Keaton and her
Silly putty nose ...

She claims two
positions and trends
'Sex' and 'Death' as harbingers
-- presage to what will become --
but those two ideas have ...
... already been done, so that
When it comes to an end
we wish it to go on.

Elm Street is much changed
Robots like HAL, the avenues roam,
getting confused at crossroads
just like humans getting hanged
-- like Jurors' contrasting impressions,

Ambivalent as Nietzsche tomes ...
... as adverse to change in direction.

By the way; Sleeper never sleeps
and, whatever he eats, he slips on --
like cannot be real, because peels
and rinds remain behind with giant chicken,
which prompts the plot to thicken
and creates apprehension ...
... about His POD
left around to satisfy His pons ...

Di'a's and Wood'e's very funny troubles
often bring out their stunt doubles
-- like His new robot dog pet, Tricky-woo,
when He Sleeper gets his brain rubbed out --
Puppy is a sport too ... as its
command is his master's wishes ...
... makes one question about:
'Say, what about the fishes?'

We wonder why She disbelieves He;
because later He disbelieves She;
all because 'Big Brother ...
... redesigns their pedigrees;
so that two equals three --
'Till the end we are a'swirl,
but thankfully, in final scene ...
da' Boy kisses da' Girl.

[pd\Bryan TX\04.16.2010]