[lit-ideas] Re: Judgment at Nuremberg

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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