Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Paule wants is to marry Roger, a pipe-smoking, frail-chasing, hairy-handed brute a few years her senior, who lacks only a trout to look like a Field & Stream ad. What she gets is a febrile few months with Simon, a delicate, beautiful and overmothered young man of 25. Neither fellow is of a sort likely to be encountered except in the lavender dells of a schoolgirl's fancy...
...begin with, the defendants are presented as decent, hardworking, responsible people who want nothing more out of life than a little personal happiness. The husband, on the other hand, is a foulmouthed, beer-bellied, wife-belting brute. The heroine's honor is smirched "just once," and this not so much for her own pleasure as to comfort the man she loves, who has been shattered by the death of his young son. What's more, the poor hero has been hounded all his life by a monster of a mother (Mildred Dunnock) who intends to keep...
...dered his own son in a blind rage. Eisen stein's Ivan is frankly intended to repre sent Stalin, who admired Ivan as the founder of the Russian state, and liked to think he was "terrible" only because he had to be. Eisenstein therefore dutifully whitewashes the brute. But the whitewash is spread so thin in some areas o>f Part 2 -in which Ivan's purge of the boyars presents an obvious parallel to Stalin's purge of the party-that the spectator can only wonder how the director managed to escape with a mere reprimand...