Zeroing Out

A fool says that Point Blank lacks character development. A second fool, the kind moved to disputation, hence to stating the obvious, replies that this misses the point: not just of the film’s stylishness, its color-coordinated greens and yellows, but a more basic fact of genre. Is not the film a kind of silent comedy, with Lee Marvin as its clown? It is our Mr. Hulot’s Holiday. Well then.