Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lcuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!lcuxc!kenw From: kenw@lcuxc.UUCP (K Wolman) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: TESTAMENT Message-ID: <320@lcuxc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 11:00:59 EST Article-I.D.: lcuxc.320 Posted: Wed Mar 6 11:00:59 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 02:42:23 EST References: <524@ahutb.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.movies:5851 net.sf-lovers:6601 At some "realistic" level, "Testament" may indeed have underestimated the prolonged horrors of a nuclear war aftermath in ways "Threads" did not. But the death of the mother's (Jane Alexander's) little boy (remember the scene at the sink?) and her almost maniacal search for his teddy-bear told me more than I ever wanted to know about a particular part of that horror. The deaths that follow seem to have a lessening impact until, by the end of the film, the viewer is damned near numb. This could be a flaw, or a far-too-successful realization of what used to be considred a "fallacy," i.e., Imitative Form. -- Ken Wolman Bell Communications Research @ Livingston, NJ lcuxc!kenw You can't "read" me because I'm not a book.