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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
Notice:	Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie!
Moderator:	VAXCPU::michaudo.dec.com::tamara::eppes

Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

233.0. "The Lover" by 12368::michaud (Jeff Michaud, DECnet/OSI) Fri Jun 25 1993 17:29

	Rented this one because it had gotton an Oscar nomination
	(for Best Cinematography), I didn't really know what
	to except.

	The story is about a young (18yo) french girl who with
	her mother and two brothers lives in Vietnam in 1929.
	The girl goes to a boarding school in Saigon and meets
	a rich young (32yo) Chinese bachlor and they become
	lovers.

	This movie is rated R and deserves it for the very explicit
	sex scenes (Basic Instinct move over).

	The movie is narrated by a much older version of the
	young girl.  Not sure if it's based on a true story
	(the narrator claims to now be a writter).

	Not sure how to rate this so I won't try.  If I had to
	catgorize it I'd probably have to put it in the "artsie"
	catagory.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
233.1	The Lover	36241::TARDUGNO		`Fri Jul 09 1993 13:14`	16
	I rented The Lover (right after renting Body of Evidence!) I didn't know what to expect either. I liked it but for the fact that the young girl really didn't show any feelings for the Chinese man, and on two occasions TOLD him she had none for him in the movie.. She was very unaware how this whole intense affair would effect her until she left on the boat... The ending was rather sentimental....The Chinese man wrote her after many years and told her he would love her til his death. Maybe I was waiting for her to return his affection in the movie but she was sooo removed from any feeling she acted as an "observer" to things that were happening to her...Very much detached What did YOU get out of this film??? I'm curious to hear another opinion...
233.2		12368::michaud	Jeff Michaud, DECnet/OSI	`Fri Jul 09 1993 14:06`	11
	> I liked it but for the fact > that the young girl really didn't show any feelings for the > Chinese man, and on two occasions TOLD him she had none for him in the movie.. She told him that because she knew their relationship had no future (remember he was traditional Chinese and had to marry whom his father arranged) and didn't want him falling in love with her (not to mention she was no longer a virgin). FWIW, I have since read the video box and it says the movie is based on a true story.
233.3	Author seems obsessed with the story	TLE::JBISHOP		`Mon Jul 12 1993 11:25`	7
	M(arguite?) Duras, the author, has written this same story twice, and grew up in what was then French Indo-china. It's very likely to be autobiographical to an extreme. -John Bishop Yes, two different novels by the same author about the same events.
233.4	The Lover	36241::TARDUGNO		`Mon Jul 12 1993 16:48`	11
	Response to previous reply...He had already told her he loved her and she was no longer a virgin because of Him so there was nothing to gain by never telling him (or by telling him for that matter!) her true feelings, especially since he said more than once that he loved her even though it had no future...I got the impression that she was denying her real feelings/reactions in hopes of it not affecting her...then on the boat she was overcome with the same feelings she had hoped to avoid. I got the feeling at the end that it WAS a true story.....was it?