Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's why, long after terrible historical events pass, people say, "But I didn't know!" "I didn't know what was going on in these camps." "I didn't know that was what the war meant." "I didn't know that he was going to die." "I didn't...
The film's intimate moments are divested of their sentimental privilege, leaving the characters nearly barren existences: but they are confronting those existences. We confront them constantly: and this generates a strange sense of time and event, which we usually regard as hopeful and progressive. Toward the end, a remarkable...
Willie Boy repeatedly yields a feeling of lack of progress and climax. But it doesn't do so continually, as a unity. Sentimental situations are instead set up and undercut. Moreover, the film is filled with strange changes, apparent lapses, in tone. Economical establishment of character alternates with incompetent dialogue...
One could argue for these as further ways to disrupt the audience's confidence in the sentimental nature of events. They are just more strangenesses in a loosely structured film. But Polonsky's descents to cliche and sentiment finally interfere with our perception of the event in itself, instead of...
Does your article mean to ignore what most critics still agree was one of the best and most "real" of all war films, In Which We Serve? And what about the simple, heartbreakingly "real" Brief Encounter? Or Fumed Oak? Or Post Mortem? Or one of his earliest-The Vortex, an...