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It was the setup to a joke in a routine that three hundred and sixty people had paid a thousand dollars each to hear. The numbers of sick and dead would spike in the years that followed. But metaphors tend to fail in the face of a plague. Under that kind of pressure, everything just comes to look more and more uncomfortably like itself. A lower-rung celebrity that no one ever really held in terribly high regard, and whom everyone had lately figured out was a crook, is somehow in charge. Joe Biden is somehow still running for President, if only he could figure out why he deserves or even wants the gig.

The houses lining the road are white and proud and modern and ensconced behind tall gates; there are no pedestrians to be seen. Then, as now, there is a plague haunting the premises and trying the locks. Her isolation is clear from the start. We first see her face, impassive and absent, under the convulsive rutting body of her husband, in bleakest missionary position. The camera, in a series of queasily patient zooms, stands in for the oppressive moment in Safe A Film Directed By Todd Haynes Carol finds herself increasingly trapped and lost.

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The casual lies and happy-talking denial and leering qualification of the crises gathering outside the gates by the people in power, the blithe cutting of bait when it came to the vulnerable people and politically useful cities that those crises came to claim—these are all invisible and absent in these tasteful interiors. And yet Carol seems not just lost in all those lovely rooms but surrounded by them.

The comforts of home close in on her. Carol, played by Julianne Moore in one of the great performances of her career, fits into all these luxe California rooms like a luminous furnishing or abstruse piece of art. The radio is a wash of AM-band evangelical blood and thunder and prosaically dire traffic Safee