“Rabbit Run”(1970): Okay, but to what?

I am gradually working my way through the considerable catalog of flicks featuring legendary actor James Caan. My latest conquest, the 1970 domestic drama “Rabbit Run”.

Caan plays Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball stud who has decided never to grow up and accept even one scrap of accountability in his life. For anything.

Oh, this sad story gives us much more than that to ponder. “RabbitRun” explores how a “good guy” can also be a bad dude, the dangerous dynamicof man’sexertion ofpower over woman and embracing self-absorptionas an all-consuming sickness.

The final seconds here are uniquely ominous. Unnerving. Eerie.

Not horrifyingly so.

Quietly.

Harry can boltfrom the mess he’s made of his life. But he can not hide from it.

Hisis a race run roughshod over everybody and everything on a pathetic path.

And it is one he will never win.