Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Issues are simplified in war, according to Hartz, and "aggression is released." But peace "involves the sense of restraint and achievement...
...portrayed with the right amount of whimsy to suit the romantic tale, and the characters are people you can become interested is. For example, when the boy finally has to kill his pet, who has began to eat the crops now that he has grown up, the superb restraint of the parents makes the scene a really moving...
...done its work in an atmosphere supercharged with politics. With a Democrat in the White House, partisan issues flared up like matches burning in oxygen. The Both had committed its share of sins, and demonstrated the normal leaning of Congress toward mediocrity. It also had had moments of decision, restraint and even greatness...
...genuine sympathy of the audience. The very funny scene in which he pretends to be mad is Congreve's best, and Gielgud's ability to handle more serious roles is shown in his tragi-comie declaration of love to Angelica. Pamela Brown plays the latter with the necessary restraint to make the character credible beneath the neat stylization. Her quiet, satirical mugging helps give the standard part another dimension. Expertly entangled among the various intrigues of plot are Robert Flemyng and Jessie Evans, as two rather rough-hewn characters, and John Kidd as an old many-times-cuckolded astronomer...
Every character is a type and an individual, and every one is well-acted. There is Jaggers, the keen, comfortable and surprisingly soft-hearted lawyer; Pip as a boy, played with magnificent restraint, obedient, kind-hearted, and romantic; Miss Havisham, the grotesque bride of another day, who dies horribly in the great, old, rat-infested house. Practically every character is sympathetic and human, yet each holds a menace of grotesque evilness in himself, something that is brought out more clearly, yet just as subtly, in the movie as in the novel...