At around 2/1/06 11:25 am, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Jim Devine wrote:
>> hey, Louis, it's bad form to give away crucial plot-twists, especially
>> those toward the end of the film. However, your review is spot-on.
>
> I've always preferred to know the ending of books, plays, or movies, and
> have never myself gotten any particular pleasure about "story-suspense."
> I prefer to be able to lean back as it were and enjoy how the author or
> director goes about reaching a known ending.
>
During my first few years in the USA, I used to be amused by the
seriousness with which adults treated movie endings or candy. While
growing up, I had learned that such things as mystery and sweets were
for children. For quite a while, I could not believe that my adult
friends in the US where in fact dead serious when they chided me for
discussing a book or movie in a manner that even gave away a bit of the
plot development.
Take for instance a favourite pop movie of mine "A Few Good Men". I
thought there were some interesting mass appeal points raised in the
contrasting worldviews of the Nicholson character (a barbaric world that
requires strong men to protect, necessarily in nasty ways, the people)
and the Cruise character (more the sort of worldview preferred, I would
think, by us lefties). An attempt at discussing the courtroom events
(towards the end of the movie) earned me severe scoldings among a bunch
of late 20 and early 30 year olds!
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