Word: heroisms
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...once again, strategy and heroism became confused, and a second down pass from Holt to McInally over a well-worn sideline pattern was intercepted by Brown's Tom Clarke. A 5-1 Harvard team walked dejectedly to the lockers, while jubilation reigned among the Bruins...
What followed was a suspense story with enough tension, surprise and heroism to make a palpable TV hit. One of the rebellious prisoners, for instance, was Adnan Ahmed Nuri, a Palestinian terrorist who was serving five years for hijacking and burning a British Airways VC-10 last March. Actually, the instigators were two Dutch criminals who were doing time for robbery. The fourth prisoner, an Algerian also convicted of robbery, appeared to be simply tagging along. With the Palestinian as front man, the quartet demanded, as the price for their hostages, a plane that would carry them to any Arab...
...hero, Hassan, is a stylized creation--one never learns where he acquires his values, or why he follows his brother's will so cravenly in the beginning. And through a large portion of the film's middle he's away in jail. His calm dispassionate heroism doesn't help elucidate the tensions within him between tradition and new values...
Because, it would seem, he has read too much Dostoyevsky. From literature's most famous betting freak he has learned that the essence of heroism lies in seeking out risks you do not have to take. In Axel's case, recklessness takes the form of exercising a willed belief that Harvard and ten is a credible basketball...
Gregori Chukhrai, who directed the film, emphasizes the individual suffering of all the characters, gives a tragic portrait of a whole people whose lives are disrupted by war. Alyosha, whose naive heroism and perpetual optimism are particularly pathetic in light of his impending death, is an example of wasted potential. He is a man who is only beginning to realize his capacity for friendship, and for love...