rew (09/01/82)
I saw AOaaG with my wife recently and we both enjoyed it. In talking it over afterwards we had different opinions of what the main theme of the movie was. I saw it as a description of the turning point in a man's life, a rite of passage if you will, with basic changes in the man's character being the core of the film. My wife felt the growth and ultimate fulfillment of an unlikely romance to be primary. To me this suggests that the film has a lot going for it. The other angle on this is that I found the romance a bit unbelieveable and somewhat of the white knight rescues damsel in distress vein, while my wife thought the naval training was overdrawn and unrealistic. Bob Warren cbosg!nscs!rew