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From: schneider@vlnvax.DEC
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Subject: re: Comfort and Joy
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Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 11:44:45 EST
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I feel I have to reply in defense of Bill Forsyth, who makes movies
I truly enjoy.  Based on her blanket statement below, Baby Sister
ought to stick to her movies of the Star Wars genre if she resents
being made to think a little...

> I saw comfort and joy in Chicago and walked out after the first hour.
> Unless you have an ice cream fetish, there is nothing of interest in
> the entire film.
>
> (Note:  I am just the sister of the person whose login appears on
>         this note and I am just visiting, so please do not respond.)

Before Comfort and Joy I also enjoyed Local Hero and Gregory's Girl
by Forsyth.  The latest two by this Scot (L.H. and C&J) I find stick
with me long after I've seen them in a manner few movies in the last
decade have.  No multi-million dollar budgets here, but LH offered
breathtaking views of the Scottish countryside while C&J explored a
bit of urban Scotland (perhaps Edinburgh).  I found a similar theme
across the two movies: very real, likeable people caught in absurd
situations and faced with decisions that the audience accompanies
them through.  The absurd is prominent but the lead roles take the
audience through it with a good-natured, toungue-in-cheek attitude.
Believe me, Comfort and Joy has a far wider appeal than the ice cream
fetish crowd.  What's more the original review here is the first
notion of dissent I've seen, read or heard to this or Forsyth's other
movies.

PS: There are no big name actors here but how many noticed Gregory's
best friend playing the garage mechanic who offered to bang out Dicky
Bird's dented BMW, and was Dicky Bird also in the Australian film, Don's
Party?
				Daniel Schneider
				DEC, Marlboro, MA
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