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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Does not the Soviet-Vietnamese friendship treaty have to be seen in the dual context of the Sino-Soviet hostility and Viet Nam's feeling of being directly threatened by China? Why was that treaty necessarily provocative against...
...credos that ultimately enable the boy to survive are storytelling and the bonds of the community. The community is a living force; each individual finds his identity within the larger context of it. The boy's grandmother burns down her house to fool the enemy into thinking that a fugitive is hiding there, and not in one of the houses next door, thus giving him time to escape. His Aunt Liberty avenges her husband and brother to prevent her 16 year old son from doing so, and so dies in his place. His uncle too, is willing to share food...
...Sulloway's view, the Freudians painted themselves into a corner very early, cutting themselves off from the world of science, blotting out the context of Freud's discoveries, and withdrawing into a sectlike movement obsessed with orthodoxy. Much of this flowed from Freud's view of himself as a lonely, beleaguered hero. Sulloway does not doubt that the myths warped the movement. But he grudgingly concedes that the stuff of legend was already there. "After all," he says, "Freud really was a hero...
Rupp says he sees himself and Stendahl foremost as educators, but within that context, he adds his viewpoint is more administrative than Stendahl's which is more pastoral...
HISTORICALLY this film is significant not merely in the context of Allen's own career, but also as one which marks a substantial advance in American film comedy (which, for a long time, has been epitomized by trivial burlesques such as those by Mel Brooks). In an even broader sense, Manhattan stands as a cinematic achievement which successfully integrates authentic environment with narratives structure. As a film about New York, it represents an artistic contribution to a distinguished group of films, from von Sternberg's 1928 The Docks of New York, to Scorsese's 1977 New York, New York...