[lit-ideas] Re: Judgment at Nuremberg
- From: Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:26:54 -0700 (PDT)
Okay, I was hard on the Debra Kerr character. Nobody asks for the values
they're indoctrinated with. Also, she did suffer a terrible loss with the
stillbirth. And her options were not many in the 1940's. I'm judging her from
today's perspective. An unexamined life may not be worth living, but it's
excrutiating difficult to buck one's belief system, even if one never asked for
the beliefs one holds in the first place. Lives of quiet desperation is the
path almost always taken. One has to wonder if there is an evolutionary
advantage to the universal resistance to change. Wouldn't it be the other way
around evolutionarily speaking?
Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I finally got around to seeing From Here to Eternity yesterday. I had
never seen it and never read the book either. The movie was good. I was
struck by how orderly the world was. The bad guys got their just deserts, and
even Montgomery Clift couldn't get away with murder, however just. The Debra
Kerr character was a product of her times, being driven to drink because she
couldn't have children. She latched onto Burt Lancaster, and he to her, until
he came to his senses and decided he liked where he was. It was better than I
expected it to be. A little off the subject, but I kind of wonder if the guy
who wrote the Popeye cartoon where Olive's eyes pop out and she squeals, "A
may-annn!" (A man!) is a satire on a character such as Debra Kerr. The men
all seemed content if not happy being married to the Army, where Debra Kerr
needs a man desperately. Donna Reed seemed to have it a bit more together. I
thought Burt Lancaster was a lowlife. Too bad the real
world isn't so orderly.
Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just watched the 1961 movie Judgment at Nuremberg. Chief
Judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) seems to
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