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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: _Return_of_the_Soldier_ (Spoiler)
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 12:45:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 12:45:24 1985
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> ...
> I recommend _The_Return_of_the_Soldier_ as long as you are willing to watch
> a movie which is not based on action but works on a more emotional level.
> -- Mike Kilian

Kudos and plaudits to Mike Kilian. He's right about _The Return_--the whole 
point of the movie was the happiness to be found living in the past rather
than the present, and the finale was when "the soldier's" wife asked his cousin
how he looked after being reminded of his true situation, as he marched back 
across the lawn to the house: "Every inch a soldier". He was going to go back
to the war grieving all over again about his dead son, having just aged 20
years and having to leave the woman he really loved for his snobbish wife,
because as "a soldier" that was his duty. But the strong implication is that he
would no longer care whether he lived or died, and that the gunshot at the end
might as easily be fired by him as by the Germans. 

John Purbrick					jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA
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