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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: _My_New_Partner_ and nasty subliminal messages...
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 14:42:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 14:42:22 1985
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In article <2157@ut-sally.UUCP> kelvin@ut-sally.UUCP (Kelvin Thompson) writes:
> [...]but other audiences
> will recognize the insidious messages planted by _Partner_ as part of a
> larger trend, a trend which corresponds roughly with the ascension to
> power of Mitterand's "Socialist" government in France.  Certainly American
> audiences will realize that all of the recent films coming out of France
> -- from _Jupiter's_Thigh_ to _Coup_de_Torchon_ to _Diva_ -- portray the
> police as ineffectual boobies and trivialize their position in society.

Hey, I *liked* _Diva_!  All they showed was one unhonest head of police...
what do you think _Witness_ portrayed?

> With luck, however, careful viewers of movies like _Partner_ may come to
> fully appreciate the foul fruit that is ripening in the heart of Europe 
> and avert the explosion peacefully, before a drop of blood need be shed.

Remember, kids, the Weed of Crime bears bitter fruit!  Nyahh-Ahh-Ahh!

Come on, I disliked _My_New_Partner_ immensely, too, due to the fact that I
cannot swallow acts as irresponsible as those of Noiret's character
(apparently French audiences do).  However, seeing insidous world-wide
socialist plots in foreign films smacks of reading one's own opinions into
the plot; otherwise, one begins to sound like certain characters in
_Dr._Strangelove_...

				"If this is foreplay, I'm a dead man!"

        Expect the Unexpected.
             He does. --->              Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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