Posted by Mitch on September 11, 2001, at 10:33:42
In reply to My forgotten two cents ..., posted by willow on September 11, 2001, at 8:37:29
> Mitch
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> Thanks for bringing this interesting topic to the board. It is a good exercise for my lax brain, parts of the movie are starting to come back now.It was just an impulse-I threw the thing in the VCR, and in the middle of the movie thought-"why not post this and see what others think?"
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> I'm not good at recalling names. The police officier who was pregnant, was she the the sheriff? Did the wife survive??
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My attentiveness and recall of names is quite lousy too. Yes, I believe she was the sheriff. No, unfortunately the wife didn't survive.> After taking an English course, I started analyzing all the characters and trying to slot them into their roles. This was in some way taking from my usual enjoyment of films and books, and disturbed my husband's pleasure too. Hmph. Wonder why growth involves these painful bumps?
>Dunno, but other people's *driving* skills make for great entertainment for the rest of us!
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> Susan
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> How right you are about the white foods. Except for the bread, which hear is mainly white, and in Finland the staple bread is a heavy sour rye, a lot more flavour. Milk is added to almost everything. Finns mostly are not lactose intolerant. Perhaps the white foods come from the milk. Snow is white too. It brightens the long winter nights that shorten the days, plus provides a great mode for transportation. A great insulator too, now isn't that an oxymoron? Mother nature has a great sense of humour.
>I think there was more than just a little spoofing of *white* middle-class America in there, as well. The movie really seemed to have little to do with murder and much more with $greed$ and *insulation* (the burbs), and also with gender roles (she is a pregnant woman as a sheriff). Most illustrators (her husband) and police don't make a lot of money, yet they seem to have their shit together a lot better than anyone else in the movie! The hoods basically are running on empty half the time and the car salesman and his wife have plenty of cash (with his father-in-law's dough added in, esp.) You know the salesman was going to lose his car business (if he didn't come up with the money), I wonder what his fate would have been if he would have just took the ass-bite with the car biz and gotten a big hand-slap for the fraudulent loan?? Would he have escaped being divorced by his wife?
Would she have realized that she was probably married to him because of her father's money, would she have forgiven him?> There was a movie called the "thirteenth warrior" or something like that. (Had a number and solider term for the title.) It was about a viking village being attacked by these people who wore bearskins. I believe the bear people represented ancient finns. The vikings and finns had always waged battles on each other. Your ancestors were more adventours and social, traveling and reaching out. Mine liked to stay on put on their land and steam.
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> Willow (a white birch at heart)Thanks for that title-that sounds a *lot* like a Bergman film I saw a LONG time ago, however. I will check into it.
Mitch
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