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Wrecked Rory's Character [spoilers]
What Makes the Ending So Confusing
The Creativity of Common People
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Schools like this tend to hire disciplinary issues internally. The administration itself is a buffer between the students and actual law enforcement. It's one of the privileges of being wealthy enough to attend an elite prep school.
Charlie isn't following ordinary rules or pursuing justice in the legal sense. He has his own sense of honor, which includes not informing on his peers, even when he doesn't really like them and it means he himself will go down hard. Maybe it is foolish but it's his own old-fashioned moral code and he stands by it. That's why Slade says something like "I don't know whether Charlie is right or wrong here, but the boy has integrity."
I also prefer the 1994 version. I enjoy Greta Gerwig's work and like the actresses individually, but all together this newer film didn't work well.
Little Women (2019) had so many moments that rang false from a historical perspective. Modern phrasings and behaviors that seemed more contemporary than 1860s. It took me out of the story and I wondered if it would have been better if Gerwig had chosen to rework it for modern times and set it in the present day.
The non-chronological approach dampened the emotional weight of the story. As a viewer it's hard to get a sense of the characters growing up, things changing, and the evolution of the love stories when we are constantly shifting between past and present.
The character of Amy should have been played by two different actresses. Very awkward to have a 20-something grown woman playing a bratty young child. The actress herself just seemed very "now" somehow. Like I could picture her pulling an iPhone out of an apron pocket.
The 1994 version is fantastic. I am not sure why we needed this newer version.
She was channeling the critic Pauline Kael. One of Kael's books is in Jake's childhood bedroom.
As others have said, the censorship of the time meant the filmmakers couldn't be direct about Geoff. But there are plenty of strong hints and clues throughout the movie.
It helps explain why he and Jo live together as friends, but with zero romantic interest in each other. He does offer to marry her, not because he is in love... but because (1) he is genuinely interested in the baby and providing for Jo; and (2) marriage would conveniently provide both Jo and himself with social cover.
The problem with relying on "ignore" is that MovieChat is brand-new, and its culture is still developing. If new, unregistered users come over to lurk and check it out, and all they see is a flood of troll activity, they might not come back. Then the community won't grow as we all want it to, and it may attract more of the troll element.
Hellooooo! Yes, I saw the film over the weekend.
James Baldwin's appearances and words really made the documentary. It was good to learn about him and his thought.
The director's choices to tie Baldwin's words from the Civil Rights movement to the current political situation and Black Lives Matter seemed a little forced to me. We are no longer in the era of MLK and Malcolm X. Some problems are the same, but other key issues are totally different. It's a related, but different, historical moment. To take words from the 60s or 70s and put them over modern footage seemed ahistorical and de-contextualized.
If the director had wanted to make a non-narrative, cut-up collage-style film (like Atomic Cafe, for instance), it might have worked. But this was supposed to be about Baldwin and his work (or so I thought).
Thanks for the tip!
It's not all that useful. The data can be found elsewhere. The unique benefit IMDb had was the message boards.
If they had handled it more professionally (like, say, spinning the boards off in a planned-out way, giving more notice, or giving users a way to export data) I would feel differently. Instead, they thoughtlessly deleted 15+ years of film discussion. That tells me everything I need to know about how much they care about cinema and their users.
Would rather support a different site.
My thoughts exactly! I watched a film from 1949 last night. I was confused about the ending, so I came on here and got to read old IMDb threads to see how other people had interpreted it over the years.
No other site had that archive of thought on specific, obscure movies. On IMDb, you could actually learn something and get new insights. Now MovieChat has inherited the boards, so this will be my home for cinema discussion.
We just need to post and make it grow!
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