Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course it isn't fair to judge a drama by its plot line alone: Shakespeare stole his, and none of them would win at Cannes. We should consider also the important elements of language, characterization, poetic vision and nobility of sentiment, all of which we have appreciated in The Passion of Anna and Persona as well as in Lear...
...loneliness have no effect on me anymore. I feel no pain of mind or body, and the harder it gets the better I like it." But then he adds in what is probably a more realistic reflection of his state of development. "I must rid myself of all sentiment and remove all possibility of love." He envisions that ultimately. "After I am finished with myself, an observer who could read my thoughts and watch my actions would never believe that I was raised in the United States, and much less would he believe that I came from the lowest class...
Nevertheless, the visitors were disturbed by the rise of protectionist sentiment. They feared that, once unleashed, protectionism could not be easily restrained, and would lead to a trade and monetary battle that might severely damage the world economy...
...even when Coutard falls toward sentiment, when he lingers too long over Xuan crying or exploits an especial cuteness in Hung's expression, it is not so much an indulgence as a tactic. He is playing on sentiment only as a way of striking through the numbness of Western response toward Vietnam...
...other circumstances the last scene of the film--Hung meeting his father in the street--would be mere mawkishness. But here nothing is resolved; the father must return to the Viet Cong; the war will go on. And any sentiment is quickly swallowed up in the sense of futility...