RE: In Search of...Forrester?


Subject: RE: In Search of...Forrester?
From: Besiada, Jennifer (Jennifer.Besiada@nextel.com)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 14:31:54 GMT


For the first ~20 minutes, I was embarrassed for the movie and for my
adamant pre-viewing interest in the film, and I avoided eye contact with the
persuaded-but- accommodating beau who sat at my left. The joining of The
Recluse and The Under-privileged was anything but realistic, and if I had to
use one descriptive word for this doubtful meeting of the minds, it would be
*dumb*.

If you can get past the weak character introductions and the unlikely
scenario, you may be touched and tickled by a few of Forrester's sordid
actions. Adoring Sean Connery as I do, it was tough not to smirk now and
again at his representation of a beautifully rough-edged hermit, but it was
not even close to a James Bond-sized performance.

Perhaps my motives for slyly *finding JD* ruined it for me, for Forrester
seemed to fit an overdone stereotype just as much as the poor Bronx kid with
*potential*. Forrester grew up in NY, dealt with some post-war emotional
situations, had his mail and other necessities brought to him, hid from
literary criticism by refusing to publish, and kept organized, dated files
of unpublished works. I felt myself rolling my eyes with a *that's so
typical* expression. Same goes for the literary exposure to Joyce,
Coleridge, Kipling, and the like.

The delight I experienced came from the little-girl-dreaming neighborhood in
my brain which wonders what type of thrill it would be to be responsible for
shaking JD from his Cornish boundaries. I give it a *B-* only because it
failed to make me teary as it should (and I can be a sucker for anything
that jerks my tears). Although, it did feature a tune I love, *Somewhere
Over the Rainbow*, twice.

Welcoming the opinions of other viewers. . .
Jennifer

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