tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post20027010824077017..comments2024-03-26T08:18:06.895-04:00Comments on Moristotle & Co.: Sunday Review: Two war filmsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-12510192930633914732014-06-24T16:01:03.021-04:002014-06-24T16:01:03.021-04:00Nice review of "The Book Thief." I was ...Nice review of "The Book Thief." I was disappointed that the movie was not an adaptation of the novel by the same title. The novel's plot was so complex that I was looking forward to getting another cut at it, but the movie was excellent,Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16318852834115896184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-23123446206968185772014-03-10T12:44:02.225-04:002014-03-10T12:44:02.225-04:00Death is an interesting character and point of vie...Death is an interesting character and point of view choice, fairly infrequent. My memory traces it, not exhaustively, from the play Everyman to Bergman's 7th Seal, to The Book Thief to Roger Angell's beautiful piece on aging in the recent New Yorker . Problem is that death is an abstraction, and no one (I know) has actually met the Dude. Works best in abstract settings, such as that medieval morality play, or the time of the Black Death in Bergman's film, but less so in the modern world, though he does make an appearance in several Woody Allen films, somewhat in echo of Bergman, and usually with a comic twinge. Death in the Book Thief, to my mind, doesn't say anything memorable.<br />jpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-77966753776372050052014-03-10T08:21:23.678-04:002014-03-10T08:21:23.678-04:00THANK YOU, Jon, for another insightful review, esp...THANK YOU, Jon, for another insightful review, especially its comparisons with other films. I haven't seen either film, although I started to read the book <i>The Book Thief</i>, but found the Death-as-narrator ploy just too awful to endure (especially for as many pages as the book contained).Moristotlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02211602374384087074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676316.post-24231116248776053332014-03-09T16:00:15.865-04:002014-03-09T16:00:15.865-04:00Today (3/9/14) BBC's website has this about Ho...Today (3/9/14) BBC's website has this about Hollywood directors in WWII: [http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26439799] Tom Lowenoreply@blogger.com