moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (06/24/85)
In article <2157@ut-sally.UUCP> kelvin@ut-sally.UUCP (Kelvin Thompson) writes: > [...]but other audiences > will recognize the insidious messages planted by _Partner_ as part of a > larger trend, a trend which corresponds roughly with the ascension to > power of Mitterand's "Socialist" government in France. Certainly American > audiences will realize that all of the recent films coming out of France > -- from _Jupiter's_Thigh_ to _Coup_de_Torchon_ to _Diva_ -- portray the > police as ineffectual boobies and trivialize their position in society. Hey, I *liked* _Diva_! All they showed was one unhonest head of police... what do you think _Witness_ portrayed? > With luck, however, careful viewers of movies like _Partner_ may come to > fully appreciate the foul fruit that is ripening in the heart of Europe > and avert the explosion peacefully, before a drop of blood need be shed. Remember, kids, the Weed of Crime bears bitter fruit! Nyahh-Ahh-Ahh! Come on, I disliked _My_New_Partner_ immensely, too, due to the fact that I cannot swallow acts as irresponsible as those of Noiret's character (apparently French audiences do). However, seeing insidous world-wide socialist plots in foreign films smacks of reading one's own opinions into the plot; otherwise, one begins to sound like certain characters in _Dr._Strangelove_... "If this is foreplay, I'm a dead man!" Expect the Unexpected. He does. ---> Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsri}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA