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Since the release of The Sorrow and the Pity, the moral and social issues raised by the occupation have become a focus of discussion in French political and cultural life, inspiring a series of films, most prominent of which is Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien Treating the problem of individual responsibility from the perspective of the collaborator instead of the victim. Malle shows that historical events of this magnitude do not intrude on people's lives as moral choices. Therefore, it is foolish to hold people morally accountable for their actions. Lucien's collaboration springs from the peculiarities...
...considering the occupation largely from the viewpoint of an isolated individual. Black Thursday, like Lacombe Lucien, obscures the need to explain collaboration and resistance in wider terms, to determine not only why one individual made a specific moral choice, but rather why a whole nation allowed the deportation to occur. Consequently, both these films fail to cope with the fundamental issues involved in the occupation and so offer inadequate explanations of even individual motivations. In this sense, the Sorrow and the Pity, with its comparative scope and superior analytic technique, is a more penetrating investigation of collaboration than either...
About the only field left to the movies, in which they could speak in a characteristic voice, is spectacle. The movies that overpower the viewer with effects only possible in film are the purest, most powerful cinematic experiences. Lacombe, Lucien, though it happens to be an excellent movie, could have been a book or a play; 2001 could only have been a movie...
...Lacombe, Lucien, 7:15 p.m. and S.P.Y.S...
...committees share Colby's concern about leaks. House Committee Chairman Lucien Nedzi plans to hire a director who can keep his staff buttoned up, much as John Doar did for the House Judiciary Committee's inquiry into the impeachment of Richard Nixon. At the request of the Senate committee, the FBI and CIA installed electronic devices to secure the committee's workroom from bugging and illegal entry. Staffers will be required to go through FBI and CIA security checks, and have been told that they will be fired if they discuss their work with outsiders. Further...