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...knows how to take a joke, too. In reference to Zappala’s thick accent drawn from his Medford roots—check that, “Medfid” roots—Yale’s team trainer has taped foam “R??s” onto his locker...
Predictably enough, one of the major plot twists is that R??my and Sébastien grow to be more like one another. In his efforts to make his father more comfortable in his final days, Sébastien starts to appreciate his father’s way of life. In turn, R??my finally learns to appreciate his son for who he is and actually takes the trouble to try and understand the value and meaning in Sébastien’s work and lifestyle. Although this seems to be an all-too-familiar plotline...
Also joining R??my in his hospital room are several friends from his youth. Among those present are his ex-wife, two of his former mistresses, an old friend who has become a family man with a very young wife and two daughters and a gay friend who brings his Italian lover. Together they reminisce about old times and slowly they realize how, over the years, they have each compromised their principles little by little, until they are barely recognizable as the people that they once were...
This focus is especially poignant because 17 years ago Denys Arcand directed a film entitled The Decline of the American Empire, starring the same actors as R??my and all his friends. With the reintroduction of these characters, Arcand crafts a comparison between the atmosphere among the youth of French Canada in the mid-’80s and that of present...
...characters bemoan the loss of values among contemporary youth—R??my’s former history students come to visit him in the hospital, but only because Sébastien pays them to—and a devaluation of the past which they blame upon the uncivilized and barbaric influences of a changing world...