Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!cramer From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: _My_New_Partner_ (spoiler) Message-ID: <302@kontron.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 20:11:45 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.302 Posted: Fri Jun 28 20:11:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:28:11 EDT References: <2157@ut-sally.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 16 > > _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.