Painful? I had the same reaction, yes, when I finally rented it last
summer. We're talking about same video? Day-Lewis, Allen, Ryder,
Scofield? The whole thing was painful--at a political level far too
close. "Oh Arthur Miller, thou art mighty yet."
The final conversation between the Proctors--two people who probably
have never spoken of love for one another finally doing so, even though
I don't remember if the word "love" happens there--had me in tears.
Great writing, great acting, an insight (brought forward in time) to
being "too damned busy to talk about it."
And then you have to. What I thought of was the cell phone calls from
the Trade Center on 9/11/01. Nothing about "Sell the stocks" but "I
love you" or "Tell the children I love them." That level of reality.
In extremis, money is bullshit.
Ken
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Ken Wolman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Patrick McManus
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 7:35 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: The Crucible-Crucibled P
>
> I was actually getting round to going through my collection of videos
from
> TV -and started The Crucible 1996 -Hytner -is it just me but I found
it
> too
> painful to watch (old softy the rest of you would be laughing all the
way
> through ??)
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