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SEEING IT AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1969

posted 15 years ago by Dannybob
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Watched this last night (via a bootleg DVD) after almost forty years when I first saw it as a movie of the week. I guess impressions change over time when I was a horny post-pubescent!

Now I realize that John and Katherine may have spent Christmas eve together, but they didn't have sex. They were both very "proper" people, with complicated marital lives and needed a simple evening of tenderness when neither one could stand to be alone.

Knowing that makes this story even more poignant and touching.

[–] thetheeyecreature 14 years ago

I think I remember this one; wish it were available from Netflix. (Along with a lot of other tv-movies.)

I'm baffled by the comment on the front page; why would somebody consider a movie a "guilty pleasure" simply because it's 40 years old? Yes, clothing and hair fashions change; so what?

"The truth 24 times a second."

[–] Monica_M_C 9 years ago

Yes, they did have sex. Maybe you are judging it by the fact that they are in their robes in the next scene? The scene after that (after John has left), Katherine gets out of bed, nude, grabbing her robe, and opens the door to John's room to see where he has gone.

I highly doubt you'll be reading this almost seven years after your post, but I've seen this film A TON of times and I couldn't let it slip. :-)

But you are correct about them both being proper people -- going back to their marriages after each gave voice to his and her loneliness and comforted each other. What was it that John said, "I wish that some nights could be in a vacuum, having no relation to past or future."