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Targets is a 1968 American thriller, written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich and filmed in color by László Kovács.
The story concerns a quiet, clean-cut young insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran named Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly) who murders his young wife, his mother and a grocery delivery boy at home, then goes on an afternoon shooting rampage from atop a San Fernando Valley oil storage tank. Several motorists and passengers are wounded or killed on the nearby freeway. When the police respond and start to close in on him, he flees and takes refuge in a Reseda drive-in theater where aging horror film icon Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) is about to make a final in-person promotional appearance before retiring from show business. Thompson, perched on the framing inside the screen tower, resumes his killing spree after sunset, randomly shooting theater patrons as they sit in their cars watching the film. In a climactic confrontation, the elderly Orlok slaps the murderer into submission. As the police take him away Thompson remarks with apparent satisfaction that he "hardly ever missed".
[M: Q, ROTTEN SOUND]
[L: G]
Targets!
Dying inside
Drying with mindless cry
Finding a brand new? life?
By rejecting the urge to fly
Flying by own free will
Going with the internal wind
Facing some problems:
The unseen cracks, the visible gloom
Numb creative mind
Dull social life
No achievements
No plan to meet the targets
Targets!
How to find a new key
When the previous have gone bad?
I? m locked from inside
Externally lost, internally chaos
Flying by own free will
Going with the internal wind
Facing some problems:
The unseen cracks, the visible gloom
Numb creative mind
Dull social life
No achievements
No plan to meet the targets