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Un examen ressuscité:
LE TESTAMENT DU DOCTEUR CORDELIER (1959)
While the Parisian suburbs are being terrorised by a maniac inflicting random attacks upon the vulnerable, the solicitor M. Joly learns a terrible secret about his lifelong friend, the respected and highly ethical psychiatrist, Dr Cordelier…
Jean Renoir’s 1959 made-for-television adaptation of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde manages to seem revisionist via the simple expedient of going back to the book, with the actor and mime artist Jean-Louis Barrault having a field day in his dual roles.
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
#1 by ronald on March 2, 2015 - 3:28 pm
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“In Jean Renoir’s world, everyone, it seems, is in the wrong; only the degree of wrong differs.”
Well, the unlovely truth is, a handful of cash will probably do the little girl and her mother a lot more good than involving the police would.
An even more unlovely truth is that the girl’s mother could easily have sent her out to walk the streets…at night…
#2 by Alaric on March 2, 2015 - 4:17 pm
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But involving the police would be more likely to prevent it happening to someone else.
#3 by ronald on March 2, 2015 - 4:40 pm
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Because rich people NEVER evade justice…
Anyway, whether involving the police would’ve done more good for someone OTHER than the little girl and her mother wasn’t the point (such as it was). I’m not a parent and thus make no pretense at insight on such matters, but I’m sure that the majority of people who ARE parents would say that “take care of your kid” must trump “the greater good” and pretty much everything else. Obviously, there’s a LOT that can be said about that kind of thing, but I only raised my initial point because that was the first thing in the review that “struck” me; it’s not my intention to immediately start a tangent away from the film itself.
#4 by ronald on March 4, 2015 - 2:24 am
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Did I pre-emptively kill the thread? Sorry about that.