Good film & means so much to so many...

I got this from one of those U.S. Neo-Preppy sites.
It's by some teenage girl called 'Muffin' or 'Botty' (or Somesuch):

"I wonder if a subtle message of the film is that the
easiest (and worst?) thing to be is a Rick Von
Slonecker--someone who, whatever their class or
station in life, dares to mock or ridicule the
seriousness with which a minority strive to safeguard
certain time-honored traditions that have importance
if only because they define a certain community. Nick
Smith disappears eventually, but not before revealing
Von Slonecker as a "scoundrel" and converting a
formerly leftist-leaning leveler named Tom.
Interesting. The self-consciousness and even noble
fear that mark the striving of the very bourgeois Nick
Smith are revealed to be rather heroic, while The
ennui-drenched aristocratic tone of Von Slonecker is
portrayed as rude, and, further, just plain spiteful."

OK - So she's got the hots for Nick Smith. Fair enough.

So many takes on this film:

Tom's politics were all a pose - He was soon seduced out of them.
Nick plays the snob game & looses (like all snobs do). He gets a bloody nose for inventing 'composits' of people.
Von Slonecker is what he is. A shit to be sure, but if he is European nobility then that rings true.

Can't say I admire a single one of them.

But I admire the film.
I like satire.

Miles.

Edit: I've found a lot more by this little Miss too. I'll post from time to time on her musings - She does make an interesting teenage POV on 'Trad' & Ivy etc.
No ridicule here - I'll protect her name & website. She just has her own slant on everything which IS interesting.

Last edited by Miles Away (2006-10-25 05:40:05)