Word: sorrowed
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...breathable air, has gone off to buy him some presents. She has left him in the care of a Southern nurse (Bella Jarrett). She, it develops, is an alcoholic who once gave a patient the wrong medicine. He, it develops, wants the wrong medicine - death - as surcease from sorrow. He is caustic; she is dumb. They are both anguished spirits, with a scarifying lack of control over the lethal game they are playing...
This is the kind of play meant for the Loeb Ex. The Loeb's failure to stage more student-written work is a pity, and its certainly no cause for sorrow that they've scheduled Room For One Woman, written and directed by S.J. Bergman, a Harvard Med School student and North House tutor...
Almost universally, people who see Sorrow and Pity come out with admiration and respect for Christian de la Masiere, a French aristocrat who fought in the Waffen SS for the Nazis on the Eastern front against Russia--in retrospect hardly the most justifiable position for a Frenchman during World War II. Ophuls himself said "I feel I have the right to judge Fascists" like la Masiere, and judge them severely. Yet we are unable to judge this man harshly--his principles, yes; his person, no. And this fact has confused many people who have tried hard to tease...
...formal (artistic) skill with which it is made has the audience rooting for the Ku Klux Klan to come to the rescue. Try as you will to resist, you cannot help but cheer them on. The principle at work in Birth of a Nation works just as well in Sorrow and Pity...
...these movies. In A Sense of Loss, the scene in which a husband and wife tell of the bomb murder of their 17-month-old son Colin is the most moving and valid testimonial to the insanity of war that I have ever seen. And when the hero of Sorrow and Pity, the bald-headed Grave brother, admits that he knew the informer who sent him to Buchenwald but decided not to revenge himself, I was brought up short: could I have shown the same strength of character...