Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!cca!ima!haddock!jimc From: jimc@haddock.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Re: TESTAMENT Message-ID: <382@haddock.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 23:51:57 EST Article-I.D.: haddock.382 Posted: Fri Mar 8 23:51:57 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 05:07:54 EST Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:ahutb:-52400:haddock:13900037:000:682 Nf-From: haddock!jimc Mar 7 13:29:00 1985 Just a tid-bit: *The Fate of the Earth* was written by Jonathan Schell, a magazine columnist who I believe has done work for New York Magazine. I agree with your assessment of *Testament*; I thought the acting was marvelous (particularly Jane Alexander's performance), but it just didn't show enough destruction to accurately reflect the nightmare of nuclear war. Also, some of the dialogue was sappy and unbelievable ("Your children are not dead; they have simply gone away until the world deserves them"). Still, I suppose that if nuclear war were accurately portrayed, there would be no story or drama, just death and dying in its many ghastly forms. Jim Campbell