To sum uo: nowadays, happy endings in the cinema are increasingly
unverisimilitudinous ...
Henry
> let's be careful: "implausible" in no way entails "escapist" . . .
> one of the cornerstones of naturalism in literature and its
> cinematic scion, film noir, is that "shit happens" . . . the
> argument behind it [which you may or may not accept] is that most
> things in life are gratuitous and have nothing to do with "personal
> virtue" . . . obviously a role of the dice that can bring undeserved
> disaster [assuming that the word "deserve" has any meaning is such a
> scheme] can obviously also bring great and undeserved riches . . .
> such events may be implausible, but they happen -- and so much the
> worse fr our notions of plausibility
>
> but i have to say again, i'm not trying to defend [or attack] the
> film, just to make sense of the terms and frames of reference being
> used in critical discussion of it
>
> mike
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