Word: lads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before entering the water. He made his first total commitment at 16, when Mahatma Gandhi spoke to students in Benares. From Gandhi, says Shastri, "I learned of the moral aspect of life-to serve your country without love of power and authority, if possible." To fight for freedom, the lad quit high school three months before he was due to graduate, and, in all, was arrested eight times by the British, serving a total of nine years in jail. In 1932, when police refused to let Indian nationalists hoist their flag on the clock tower of Allahabad, he rode...
...They try to memorize the moon." Not inappropriately for an allegory, they are named "the boy" and "the girl." Sydne Kalet is fully believable as the charming 16 year old girl, though occasionally a more mature voice and graceful style would have suited her role. As for the young lad (Dean Stolber), he is "grown up and stable and willing to conform"; but he is in love and life is a poem...
...recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with it... Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad... I like to think I'm gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me... Let us not assassinate this lad further Senator...
...film opens as a car (a tidy Peugeot 403) speeding along a country road stops to pick up a hitch-hiker. The car's driver, a dapper sports-writer of forty, is challenged by the youth's self-as-surance and invites the lad to spend the day on a boat with him and his handsome wife. The boy accepts and the three set to sea. With him the boy brings a knife--a phallic, contractile affair. "I'm a hiker," he explains. "I use it to cut through things." In time the knife comes to represent masculinity...
...final confrontation, the man throws the knife overboard and knocks the boy (who has protested that he can't swim)in after it. The lad disappears and the wife, convinced that he has drowned, berates her husband as a murderer and a coward. The man, beaten and scared, leaves the boat and swims for shore. From behind a buoy, where he has been hiding, the boy swims back to the boat and triumphantly seduces the wife...