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March 12th, 2008 by
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As common as telesales is today, door-to-door sales was in the sixties. We follow four men trying to make a buck selling a very expensive bible. Most of the people are polite and take them in for a coffee. And that’s when the salesmen use all of their tricks and tiring techniques to sell these bibles. But most of these people are themselves, struggling to make a decent living. | ||||||||
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It's quite an accomplishment when you can say such an old movie doesn't feel aged. In one way Salesman is a look into the morals and life of the sixties. But on the other side, it's an psychological display of what these men had to go through every day. Being on the road day after day, talking for hours and selling next to nothing. After that, you have to go into a meeting with some kind of supervisor, who tells you to put even more effort into it.
All this feels like really living in the sixties. But it's not like you're watching something that's dated. It could be an experimental movie like Steven Soderbergh's 'The Good German'. Filmed now, but like it was done back then. And if people are still talking about a documentary you made 40 years ago, you must have done a pretty good job. | ||||||||
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