Posted by Derek Janssen on 07/16/06 22:39

William December Starr wrote:
> In article <1153064409.408420.263810@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
> ddnoe@bellsouth.net said:
>
>
>>(Denise) Try this address and let me know what you think:
>>http://www.cleansheets.com/coverstories/noe_08.10.05.shtml.
>
>
> Thanks. I didn't think that aside from summarizing the two films
> the essay really had much to say, at least not about the real (as
> opposed to the cinematic) world, especially as it is today rather
> than how it was in the 1970s.

And also as "Swept Away" was actually more of a class-system allegory,
back when proto-Marxist "Eat the rich" proletariat issues were a
particularly big deal in 70's Italy.

Anybody who's looking too hard for gender or sexual messages will
probably be looking too hard, too wishfully, or, to paraphase Mark
Twain, be shot.

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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