Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America's lifting the embargo on Vietnam has people in both countries talking about reconciliation, even friendship. Let us be clear. Vietnam wants the U.S. in the region as a counterweight to China. The profit motive drives America's wish for relations with Vietnam. Anyone susceptible to the sentimental image of the U.S. and Vietnam as lion and lamb lying down together can be cured by a visit to the war museum in Saigon, where the propaganda about American atrocities is ham-handed and offensive, and where G.I. gear is sold at souvenir stands. A great deal of history stands...
...perfect adoration in Matthew's terse Glaswegian tones perfectly conveys the weight of his loss. In complete contrast to Charles' improbable absorption with Carrie, Matthew's grif at the loss of Gareth is utterly believable because all along we have seen Gareth and Matthew as complete individuals bonded by friendship and love. Unfortunately, this reviewer found herself thinking that this subplot deserved its own movie and wishing that she had gone to see that one instead...
Adapted from Henri-Pierre Roche's novel, the film begins in 1912, with the meeting of Jules and Jim. As the voice-over narration recounts, Jules (Oskar Werner), an Austrian newly arrived in Paris, meets Jim (Henri Serre), a Frenchman, and the two young bohemians become fast friends. Their friendship appears to be perfect. According to the narrator, "they talked into the early hours of the morning, each teaching the other his own language and literature...showed each other poems and translated them together...shared a relative indifference towards money and...chatted easily, each finding in the other the best...
...narrative economy with which Truffaut establishes Jules and Jim's friendship leaves one breathless. Using jump cutting and dizzying montage, Truffaut conveys the excitement of a newfound friendship, paralleling the excitement the excitement of falling in love. Though they have women in their lives, Jules and Jim spend most of their time together, giving their friendship homoerotic overtones. Jim, an author, writes an autobiographical novel based on his friendship with Jules, and reads a passage to Jules which says, "They came to be known as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and soon, unknown to them, their behavior led to, much...
Jules and Jim have a satisfying, placid friendship, but they love Catherine because she is anything but placid. When they are with her, exciting, spontaneous things happen. Catherine is mercurial, jumping frenziedly from one activity to the next. She goes out with them dressed as a man, and at one point throws herself into the Seine as they are walking home from the theater. For Jules and Jim, Catherine functions as a catalyst; she introduces an element of unpredictability, excitement and danger into their lives...