NP - This Xmas Season's Movies

[Mark Kohut]

That's 'buy"....'description" not 'decryption"...and 'really' rather than
''rather" ...sorry

will go back to proofreading...

"to crack the frozen ice within"---Kafka on MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA.

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> yet, even though trailers are not meant to be viewed....(do you by a book
> by it's cover; or worse, the catalog copy--if
> you ever get to see it; or the ISBN registration decryption?)----
>
> if you don't rather cry or tear up mightily with necessary stoic control,
> then you haven't 'seen' that is, felt it....even Casey does so briefly.
>
> I am damn glad I KNEW NOTHING about it but Lonergan and Casey Affleck
> before I went...
> or I might not have gone.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 1:37 PM, kelber at mindspring.com <
> kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> The trailer certainly makes it look like a by-the-numbers guy-weepy (ya
>> know, like Shawshank Redemption). Is it drastically different from what's
>> shown in the previews? I stay far, far away from weepies of any variety.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>>
>>
>> Jim Frame <jbframe at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not everyone liked it.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
>> To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> Cc: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Wed, Dec 28, 2016 2:31 am
>> Subject: Re: NP - This Xmas Season's Movies
>>
>> Why is the title misleading or ironic? It's the name of a town.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 11:23 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just saw Manchester by the Sea.  It is a finely-crafted tale that
>>> jerked many tears from this sap.  Beside the great acting, its best feature
>>> is the telling of its story via seamless meshing of past with present.
>>> This meshing makes us quickly love and care for all the characters
>>> presented, but especially for the main one, a deeply broken man who always
>>> soldiers on through his great pain.  Highly recommended.
>>>
>>> The film's title is a misleading irony.  It is a spoof.  This ain't
>>> Masterpiece Theater.
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>
>>
>
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