> >> I was going to submit this to next month's PUG, then decided not to. > >> So I thought it might make a good PESO: > >> > >> http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2012/01/spur.html > >> > >> Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > That picture has an ominous atmosphere. My French cinema prof tells > us that > > whenever you see a train in a French film - even pre-war French films > - it > > is about the transports from France eastwards during the war. Vel > d'Hiv, > > Papon and so on. So now when I see a picture like yours, that is what > > immediately springs to mind. > > > > B > > Just out of curiosity, how does the professor explain a scene in a > PRE-war French film being a reference to an event that hadn't yet > happened at the time? >
She's a French film teacher, so naturally she invokes Voltaire. In fact, as the spectator watching the film from our viewpoint, you know what happened in the war so you can see that the trains prefigured events to come. But bear in mind that trains have run between Germany and France several times before WWII, and also that many of the French pre-war films were about the coming war, which of course many people knew was going to happen, and had a pretty good idea of the likely outcome for France. La Regle du jeu (Renoir) is the classic example. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
