Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!eagle!alice!rabbit!jj From: jj@rabbit.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Local Hero-Review--harmless spoiler Message-ID: <1570@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jun-83 12:52:15 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.1570 Posted: Wed Jun 8 12:52:15 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jun-83 05:19:50 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 38 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 shouldsee it yourself. Now... Where did I put my watch???