I think* there's an age at which it's a very natural story to imprint on. I'm not familiar with that film--I have to admit that I've almost no familiarity with any non-Francophone adaptation. I'd like to see it, sometime.
The necessary suspensions of disbelief only started to annoy me as I got older. I have a similar problem with plots where the tension must be produced by the protagonists not talking to one another
That sort of thing does get frustrating. A while back I was re-reading some quasi-terrible space opera from my childhood (written by a man who called himself Thorarinn Gunnarson), and, although I still found some aspects of the story surprisingly evocative, I couldn't help but reflect on how annoying it was that a goodly number of the subplots hinged on the fact that many of the distant future humans were (apparently as a result of accumulated genetic defects, or something like that**) rather dim.
No, he's in an adaptation from 1990. He was Oscar-nominated for it.
That would be the one, then, Merci!
I haven't seen that, although I know it's one of Alison's favorite films; we keep talking about watching it for Movie Night.
I think it's definitely a film you should see sometime. The music is gorgeous. It's where I first heard Jordi Savall play the viol; for that alone I treasure it.***
Thank you. You, too.
You're welcome. And thank you.
*Obviously, as I did myself, a bit. **The number of times the matter was brought up was rather creepy, although at least the heroes were all on the side of the people who wanted to solve it with free, voluntary, and publicly-proved genetic therapy. ***The microphones were apparently close enough to catch the players' breathing during certain passages, which added to the verisimilitude and intensity of some of the scenes in the movie, to my mind. My girlfriend from high school used to sometimes say "Oh, let's put in that CD with the nose hair music." I'm certain she meant it kindly.
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I think* there's an age at which it's a very natural story to imprint on. I'm not familiar with that film--I have to admit that I've almost no familiarity with any non-Francophone adaptation. I'd like to see it, sometime.
The necessary suspensions of disbelief only started to annoy me as I got older. I have a similar problem with plots where the tension must be produced by the protagonists not talking to one another
That sort of thing does get frustrating. A while back I was re-reading some quasi-terrible space opera from my childhood (written by a man who called himself Thorarinn Gunnarson), and, although I still found some aspects of the story surprisingly evocative, I couldn't help but reflect on how annoying it was that a goodly number of the subplots hinged on the fact that many of the distant future humans were (apparently as a result of accumulated genetic defects, or something like that**) rather dim.
No, he's in an adaptation from 1990. He was Oscar-nominated for it.
That would be the one, then, Merci!
I haven't seen that, although I know it's one of Alison's favorite films; we keep talking about watching it for Movie Night.
I think it's definitely a film you should see sometime. The music is gorgeous. It's where I first heard Jordi Savall play the viol; for that alone I treasure it.***
Thank you. You, too.
You're welcome. And thank you.
*Obviously, as I did myself, a bit.
**The number of times the matter was brought up was rather creepy, although at least the heroes were all on the side of the people who wanted to solve it with free, voluntary, and publicly-proved genetic therapy.
***The microphones were apparently close enough to catch the players' breathing during certain passages, which added to the verisimilitude and intensity of some of the scenes in the movie, to my mind. My girlfriend from high school used to sometimes say "Oh, let's put in that CD with the nose hair music." I'm certain she meant it kindly.