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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
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Subject: Local Hero-Review--harmless spoiler
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Date: Wed, 8-Jun-83 12:52:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  8 12:52:15 1983
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Local Hero has made it around to the second rate theatres in NJ,
apparently (since that's where I saw it).

I have several comments;

	1)  If you like funny (not slapstick or gross out, but intellectually
	funny and ironic) movies, SEE THIS ONE!   It's a quiet, intellegent
	movie, with lots of human interactions, non-standard characterizations,
	and unusual, but likely, endings.

	2)  It shows the various characters growing up, or at least out
	into new roles, and new ways of thinking, while it manages to
	avoid preaching.  (Well, there is one scene, 
	where <***spoiler deleted**> happens, where the author's message
	label should appear at the bottom of the screen, but since I
	agree...)

	3)  It's the first movie I've seen in quite a while that depends
	on the spectator's understanding for the humour.  This humor
	is of the "dry" or "ironic" style, but not a bit sarcastic,
	and depends quite a bit on the viewer's realization that the
	roles/positions in the situation are not at all what they seem,
	and that all parties to this deception know, and accept this as
	a matter of course.

	4)  You can't avoid (well I suppose you COULD, but) leaving the
	theatre with a good (not hysterical, frightened, or stressed)
	attitude.  I suppose I could use the word "soothing", but that word
	carries all sorts of stupid connotations these days.

	5)  The scenery in Scotland is fantastic, and the cinematography
	does it justice.

I could go on for quite a while, but you should  see it yourself.

Now...  Where did I put my watch???