lune7000
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Post by lune7000 on Jun 8, 2021 1:36:04 GMT
I just watched The Blue Angel for the first time. The story has a professor who is dignified and values learning, but lives a repressed, joyless existence. He falls in love with a show girl who gives him a sense of life but does anything for money. He is willing to do anything for her and degrades himself to help her show. However, there is only so far a person can compromise, and he is ultimately crushed by the opposing values/desires in his life.
The final rooster crow he gives on stage is the sound of a heart breaking. Birds are a motif for "the soul" in this film (his caged bird doesn't sing, hers does).
What are some other movies like this? Where a person's love for another leads them to reject their own dignity and values- leading to self destruction? (exclude film noir movies- I am not interested in this theme as it relates to crime)
thanks
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 8, 2021 1:37:46 GMT
Lolita
Blaze (1989)
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Post by Isapop on Jun 8, 2021 1:40:40 GMT
Of Human Bondage (multiple versions)
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Post by Isapop on Jun 8, 2021 1:43:14 GMT
King Kong
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 8, 2021 22:55:28 GMT
The Astonished Heart (1950) UK Dir. Terence Fisher and Antony Darnborough A compassionate study of the human heart and its imperfections. The excellent drama is based on Noel Coward's own play he stars alongside; Celia Johnson his wife Barbara and Margaret Leighton his mistress Leonora. Eminent psychiatric Doctor Christian Faber has been happily married to his wife, Barbara for many years. Into their lives comes young and attractive Leonora... Foreshadowing his decline Dr. Faber quotes Deuteronomy 28:28: "The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart ". Margaret Leighton and Noel Coward
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lune7000
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Post by lune7000 on Jun 9, 2021 19:52:46 GMT
thanks for the suggestions- I pursue every tip I get.
It's really too bad this theme isn't explored more in movies. Movie romance relationships are usually between two equals, but in the real world one person very often wants the relationship more and sacrifices their needs to keep it. So many lives have been wasted this way. An extreme example would be between the vampire and human in "Let the right one in".
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Post by timshelboy on Jun 18, 2021 22:26:49 GMT
As a bonus you get what may be Olivier's greatest performance.....
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