Comentários em: Where is the virtue in “Little Children”? http://adufe.net/2007/02/where-is-the-virtue-in-little-children/ As armas do meu Adufe não têm signo nem fronteira Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:21:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Por: Rui Cerdeira Branco http://adufe.net/2007/02/where-is-the-virtue-in-little-children/#comment-7732 Rui Cerdeira Branco Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:55:17 +0000 http://adufe.net/2007/02/where-is-the-virtue-in-little-children/#comment-7732 Fair enough :-) Fair enough :-)

]]> Por: claudia http://adufe.net/2007/02/where-is-the-virtue-in-little-children/#comment-7731 claudia Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:46:24 +0000 http://adufe.net/2007/02/where-is-the-virtue-in-little-children/#comment-7731 Agree on the ambiguity/chance. That's why we're having this exchange, since the interpretations are multiple. :) I'm not saying they stayed for moral reasons. And I don't believe if they had pursued their passion they would have lived happily ever after. As I see it, neither of them seemed to love their respective spouses (being more obvious in her case). But the fact is that neither of them had a paying job or seemed too eager to....I rest my case. Agree on the ambiguity/chance. That’s why we’re having this exchange, since the interpretations are multiple. :)

I’m not saying they stayed for moral reasons. And I don’t believe if they had pursued their passion they would have lived happily ever after. As I see it, neither of them seemed to love their respective spouses (being more obvious in her case). But the fact is that neither of them had a paying job or seemed too eager to….I rest my case.

]]> Por: Rui Cerdeira Branco http://adufe.net/2007/02/where-is-the-virtue-in-little-children/#comment-7730 Rui Cerdeira Branco Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:24:05 +0000 http://adufe.net/2007/02/where-is-the-virtue-in-little-children/#comment-7730 As you are not sure that they found out that breaking up with the status quo was the best solution (the movie is ambiguous enough as I tried to say be speaking of the role played by “chanceâ€?), I'm not sure that doing that (keeping with the status quo) must be the consequence of chicken out or of wanting to return to the “safetyâ€? of home. The romanticism and adventure hip associated with breaking up with the status quo is at least as overrated as the opposite decision is underrated. Both are still looked upon filled with presumption. I hope that out there some people are well beyond the dichotomy that the sixties gave us. Being free to do what you want is precisely that, and not just doing the opposite of what you are (were) supposed to do by you parents (grandparents?) standards. That’s the real freedom. You can go both ways without having to be labelled naively romantic or gutless. As you are not sure that they found out that breaking up with the status quo was the best solution (the movie is ambiguous enough as I tried to say be speaking of the role played by “chanceâ€?), I’m not sure that doing that (keeping with the status quo) must be the consequence of chicken out or of wanting to return to the “safetyâ€? of home.
The romanticism and adventure hip associated with breaking up with the status quo is at least as overrated as the opposite decision is underrated. Both are still looked upon filled with presumption.
I hope that out there some people are well beyond the dichotomy that the sixties gave us. Being free to do what you want is precisely that, and not just doing the opposite of what you are (were) supposed to do by you parents (grandparents?) standards. That’s the real freedom. You can go both ways without having to be labelled naively romantic or gutless.

]]> Por: claudia dias http://adufe.net/2007/02/where-is-the-virtue-in-little-children/#comment-7725 claudia dias Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:43:20 +0000 http://adufe.net/2007/02/where-is-the-virtue-in-little-children/#comment-7725 I'm not sure that they found out that breaking up with the status quo was the best solution. They both found themselves in difficult situations (a paedophile bleeding and a trip to the hospital) and neither wanted to be alone. They returned to the safety of "home". All I'm saying is that its a good movie when it comes to reproducing reality: how many people do you know that chicken out of doing what they really want for the sake of comfort or safety? It just made me a bit sad. I’m not sure that they found out that breaking up with the status quo was the best solution. They both found themselves in difficult situations (a paedophile bleeding and a trip to the hospital) and neither wanted to be alone. They returned to the safety of “home”. All I’m saying is that its a good movie when it comes to reproducing reality: how many people do you know that chicken out of doing what they really want for the sake of comfort or safety?

It just made me a bit sad.

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