Attitude

Stark and defiantly free of redemptive Hollywood clichés, this bleak B&W film charts the last doomed days of an articulate but self-deluded ex-con whose poisonous anger proves his downfall. Spoddy (Michael Disend) lives and works in a small commercial garage and does the bulk of his business with car thieves Big E (Marion Christian) and Blackie (Vernon Medearis). Perpetually seething and conditioned to lash out at the world before it can lash out at him, Spoddy channels his chaotic emotional energy into an obsessive fascination with birds, whose sharp beaks and claws, sleek beauty and ability to soar high above the Earth represent everything that eludes him. Spod...