tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post3524067505251558617..comments2024-03-24T21:42:48.278-04:00Comments on Another Old Movie Blog: Everybody Comes to Rick'sJacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-45441048945642693702007-08-15T14:54:00.000-04:002007-08-15T14:54:00.000-04:00You're very kind, J.C. It's true what you say tha...You're very kind, J.C. It's true what you say that we cannot appreciate fully the emotions of the era in which a very old film was made. At best, we may look at it with an historian's dispassionate view. I can remember when I was young watching a wartime film and chuckling over something I thought was corny. My mother, who had been a young woman during the war, came in and wanted to know what I had laughed at. She looked at the TV, recognized the movie (I've since forgotten the title) and actually shuddered. She said she and my aunt saw that in the theater and sobbed. <BR/><BR/>I was incredulous. The movie was silly and my mother was not the sobbing kind. She shook her head and said, "You forget, you know how the war ended. We didn't."<BR/><BR/>I accepted what she said, but never understood until the instant I saw the second plane fly into the World Trade Center. Then I knew what grief and fear and a sudden choking love of your country can do to your outlook. I had grown up in a more cynical age. I suddenly understood my parents better, and that you can love your country the way you love your mother.<BR/><BR/>What a shame it took a catastrophe to understand that the feelings of a preceeding generation, no matter how silly they may seem, must be honored.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-1386060136062653902007-08-15T09:39:00.000-04:002007-08-15T09:39:00.000-04:00This is one of the best posts I've read from anyon...This is one of the best posts I've read from anyone this week! You rightly point out the real drama going on in the lives of those involved in the film and remind us that we can't watch the film as when it was released. It is impossible. We know Germany was defeated. When it was released the evil and the ever loaming threat was very real, therefore making the choices and actions in the film all the more dangerous and the peril more palpable.J.C. Loopholehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11976993877171613834noreply@blogger.com