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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: _My_New_Partner_  (spoiler)
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 20:11:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 20:11:45 1985
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>                              _My_New_Partner_
>  
>                             by Kelvin Thompson
>  
>  This type of manipulation may wash with the French, 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.
>  
For the life of me, I can't see why a Socialist government would want to
portray police as ineffectual or trivialize their position --- socialism
can't operate without a lot of coercion, and that's what police are for.