Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once their love is consummated and they are lazying around Paris, the model starts to examine the wisdom of her newfound lover's resolution to turn himself in. She questions the morality of the war in Viet Nam and argues that he was right in deserting. Most of the model's arguments are forceful enough, if a little familiar, but the young man never seriously wavers. "Those statements have all been made," he announces emphatically. "I'm tired of running, Deirdre. I want my life back." It is because Deirdre wants part of his life too that...
There is smog in Shangri-La. Stashed on the shelf of the monastery library-that repository of wisdom and enlightenment for a weary world-is a Reader's Digest Condensed Book...
...feeling of separateness from it." The ecstasy -- in Fromm as in the film--is always ephemeral. The public that filled Time's letter columns and opposed the film on moral grounds also bought many millions of copies of Fromm's Art of Loving, and made his ideas popular wisdom. In showing the orgiastic tryst as an ultimate failure, the film plays out a moral well within that wisdom. The departure from bourgeois morality lies in the deeper implication that the characters' ecstasy is the fleeting and only hope in a desparate world where women demand that their men be fortresses...
...into an asset, allowing their parts to grow naturally with on another. The best in Brock Patrick Walsh, a strong young David, whose fine singing adds much to his role. Paul Fitzgerald achieves a good sense of comraderie as his friend Nathan, and Michael Brewer possesses all the gruffness, wisdom and maturity of a prophet...
...sing the song of play, for children too have wisdom...